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The DOJ's 86-page prosecution memo - mysteriously disappeared from Government website this week after we asked about it
‘Mysteriously disappeared’: DOJ Epstein prosecution memo vanishes after press inquiry
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https://abcnews.go.com/US/after-epsteins-death-investigation-weighed-potential-charges-conspirators/story?id=129752545
Four months after Epstein’s death, federal prosecutors laid out the evidence and allegations they had gathered in a confidential "prosecution memorandum" sent to the then top-prosecutor in New York, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman – to analyze "the extent to which certain of Epstein's associates and employees may or may not be criminally liable for their conduct during their employment with Epstein."
As investigators interviewed dozens of Epstein’s alleged victims as well as his associates and former employees, several names kept popping up, including Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein's former executive assistant Lesley Groff, who allegedly helped schedule massage appointments for women and minor girls, according to multiple people interviewed in the investigation.
Prosecutors were evaluating whether the legal tools and evidence were sufficient to charge any associates, including Maxwell and Groff, they wrote in the memo. That legal analysis is almost entirely redacted."
The memo also details allegations made by an alleged Epstein victim of wrongdoing by two prominent associates of Epstein -- Wall Street billionaire Leon Black, and Jes Staley, Epstein’s former private banker at JP Morgan."
All four are people accused of wrongdoing by Virginia Guiffre in civil suits, years earlier. This document appears at least in part to be the DoJ/SDNY doing their due diligence with regards to allegations made by Giuffre in her earlier civil suits.
As of 2019, the prosecutors were likely pondering whether Maxwell might be able to weasel out of trouble under the 2008 NPA, given it was written in a fairly open-ended way. Which she in fact eventually DID try to do. We know how well that scheme worked out for her. I mention that because it's pretty plausible that much of the "redacted legal analysis" was actually talking about the NPA and whether it protected Maxwell and Leslie Groff (who was explicitly named, with 3 other women who worked for Epstein therein).
I'd also add that Geoffrey Berman is considered a pretty stand-up dude.
It is not unreasonable to wonder whether this 86-page document may have exposed victims names that were not supposed to be exposed (the assholes did a lot of that), so maybe it was taken down for that reason, as opposed to something more nefarious
Four months after Epstein’s death, federal prosecutors laid out the evidence and allegations they had gathered in a confidential "prosecution memorandum" sent to the then top-prosecutor in New York, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman – to analyze "the extent to which certain of Epstein's associates and employees may or may not be criminally liable for their conduct during their employment with Epstein."
As investigators interviewed dozens of Epstein’s alleged victims as well as his associates and former employees, several names kept popping up, including Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein's former executive assistant Lesley Groff, who allegedly helped schedule massage appointments for women and minor girls, according to multiple people interviewed in the investigation.
Prosecutors were evaluating whether the legal tools and evidence were sufficient to charge any associates, including Maxwell and Groff, they wrote in the memo. That legal analysis is almost entirely redacted."
The memo also details allegations made by an alleged Epstein victim of wrongdoing by two prominent associates of Epstein -- Wall Street billionaire Leon Black, and Jes Staley, Epstein’s former private banker at JP Morgan."
All four are people accused of wrongdoing by Virginia Guiffre in civil suits, years earlier. This document appears at least in part to be the DoJ/SDNY doing their due diligence with regards to allegations made by Giuffre in her earlier civil suits.
As of 2019, the prosecutors were likely pondering whether Maxwell might be able to weasel out of trouble under the 2008 NPA, given it was written in a fairly open-ended way. Which she in fact eventually DID try to do. We know how well that scheme worked out for her. I mention that because it's pretty plausible that much of the "redacted legal analysis" was actually talking about the NPA and whether it protected Maxwell and Leslie Groff (who was explicitly named, with 3 other women who worked for Epstein therein).
I'd also add that Geoffrey Berman is considered a pretty stand-up dude.
It is not unreasonable to wonder whether this 86-page document may have exposed victims names that were not supposed to be exposed (the assholes did a lot of that), so maybe it was taken down for that reason, as opposed to something more nefarious