they did a lot of this behind closed doors. they, quite frankly, misled not only the public but they misled the judge. did not even tell her the scope of mr. epstein s crimes that he was accused of and he never, of course, gave the victims an opportunity even to appear in court at the sentencing where they likely would have objected to him being charged. he was charged with a prosecution charge and this was all done without their knowledge, and the media really didn t know about it either. it was very carefully orchestrated so that no one would find out. i want to read, this is sort of, i think when we talk about the inequities in our criminal justice system, this scene depicts exactly what people worry about. you write this, on a muggy october morning in 2007, miami s top federal prosecutor, alexander acosta had a breakfast point with former colleague, jay