This is FRESH AIR. I m Dave Davies, in today for Terry Gross.
When wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in 2006 following an investigation into his sexual activities with teenage girls, the case ended in a shockingly lenient plea bargain. He pled guilty to soliciting prostitution and served 13 months in a county jail before resuming his jet-setting lifestyle. His rearrest in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges was largely the result of a hard-hitting investigative series in the Miami Herald, which relied on a wealth of documentary evidence and the firsthand accounts of women who said they were repeatedly abused as adolescents by Epstein in his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion. They also said they were paid to recruit other teenage girls for him to exploit.
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz filed a libel lawsuit against Netflix on Wednesday over the way he was presented in a documentary series about dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The post Alan Dershowitz Sues Netflix for $80 Million Over ‘Deliberately One-Sided’ Jeffrey Epstein Documentary Series first appeared on Law & Crime.
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz filed a libel lawsuit against Netflix on Wednesday over the way he was presented in a documentary series about dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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‘Violence to the Statutory Text’: Two Female Judges Issue Blistering Dissents as Court Rules Epstein Victims Can’t Sue Over Prosecutors Who Lied About Sweetheart Deal Colin Kalmbacher
A federal court has, for the second time in as many years, told victims of
Jeffrey Epstein that they cannot void the plea agreement that minimized his punishment, kept them silenced, and purported to immunize his alleged co-conspirators.
In a series of opinions and dissents spanning 185 pages, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that survivor
Courtney Wild has no standing to challenge how the government’s decades-old deal with the deceased pedophile, which included an unusual non-prosecution agreement for his accused co-conspirators, by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida in 2007.