tom. secretary, a lot of people are watching this news conference including several young women who say that they were teenagers when jeffrey epstein sexually assaulted them. they say that they went to you looking for help and they didn t hear back from you until it was too late. do you owe them an apology? so you re raising the issue of victim notification. and in the documents that i ve circulated, i ve addressed the issue of victim notification as well. the career prosecutor in this case had a difficult decision to make. and she didn t make it alone. she made it in consultation with the fbi and she made it in consultation with the office. the agreement that had been negotiated had an unusual provision. even though this was a state
case, that s my job. tom? tom llamas, abc news. a lot of people are watching this news conference, including 7 young women who say they were teenagers, they say they went to you, looking for help, they didn t hear back from you until it was too late. do you owe them an apology? you re waysing the issue of a victim in the documents i ve circulated. i addressed the issue of victim notification as well. the career prosecutor in this case had a difficult decision to make, and she didn t make it alone. she made it in consultation with the fbi, and she made it in consultation with the office. at agreement that had been negotiated had an unusual provision. even though this was a state
secretary, a lot of people watching this news conference, including several young women who say they were teenagers when jeffrey epstein sexually assaulted them, they say that he went to you looking for help and they didn t hear back from you until it was too late. do you owe them an apology? you are raising the issue of victim notification. in the documents that i have circulated, i have addressed the issue of victim notification as well. the career prosecutor in this case had a difficult decision to make. she could not make it alone. she made in consultation with the fbi engine made in consultation with the office. the agreement that had been negotiated had an unusual provision. even though this was a state case, the victims would have the
for sentences of a decade or more behind bars. acosta s role in the plea deal brought to light last fall by a long investigation by the miami-herald which identified dozens of women who say they were molested or otherwise sexually abused by epstein. four of them willing to speak on video. we were under age. we were little girls. i was 16. i was 16. i started going to him when i was like 14, 15. reporter: the paper confirmed more than a decade ago federal prosecutors identified 36 victims were underage. perhaps most surprising of all, is that sweetheart deal ageed to by the federal government was never discussed or even shared with any of the victims. and because of the lack of notification that a federal judge just february found prosecutors led by acosta at the time violated the law which requires that victim
victim? which in a lot of cases is harder than you might think. number two, is the information that we have at that point in the investigation actionable for the victim? is there something they can do with it? could sharing the information actually protect somebody prevent a loss, etc. we also look at whether or not sharing the information at the time in question would potentially come compromise and existing investigation and the last point i would make is that when you have a large number of people it is much easier for us to provide victim notification when we have official or government or corporate accounts where we can contact the chief information security officer and then they can communicate to all the people who are on that server.