Kenneth Starr and the Campaign to Keep Jeffrey Epstein Out of Federal Court
The former judge and independent counsel used his prestige and access to attack the prosecution, resist survivor notification, and press senior Justice Department officials for repeated review
Jeffrey Epstein did not face the federal indictment that prosecutors had prepared in South Florida. He received a confidential nonprosecution agreement, pleaded guilty to two state offenses, served less than thirteen months with extraordinary work release privileges, and obtained federal protection for named and unnamed potential coconspirators.
That outcome was not produced by one lawyer or one meeting. It emerged from an unequal contest between girls who had little power and a wealthy defendant represented by an expanding team of legal celebrities. Kenneth Winston Starr was one of the most consequential members of that team.
Starr brought something different from the lawyers who negotiated the agreement sentence by sentence. He brought the authority of a former federal appellate judge, former United States Solicitor General, former independent counsel, law school dean, and nationally recognized constitutional lawyer. The surviving record shows him using that authority to seek meetings with senior Justice Department officials, transmit attacks on the prosecutors and their case, oppose proposed notices to survivors, and pursue successive levels of review after the agreement had been signed.
The distinction matters. The available evidence does not establish that Starr conceived or principally drafted the September 2007 agreement. Jay Lefkowitz was more directly involved in negotiating its language with federal prosecutor A. Marie Villafaña. Starr’s documented role was different. He helped turn Epstein’s defense into a campaign of institutional pressure. He repeatedly carried the defense argument above the trial team and asked officials in Washington to stop a federal prosecution that Justice Department reviewers ultimately concluded was appropriate.
This dossier evaluates that role using contemporaneous defense correspondence, the Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility report, court records, official Baylor University findings, and reporting by Julie K. Brown and other established news organizations. Defense accusations are identified as accusations. Institutional findings are not converted into personal findings without evidence. Representation of a criminal defendant is not itself misconduct. The issue is what Starr actually did, what those actions accomplished, and how they affected a case involving sexually exploited minors.
Snapshot
| Field | Verified information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Kenneth Winston Starr |
| Born | July 21, 1946 |
| Died | September 13, 2022 |
| Principal public roles | Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, United States Solicitor General, independent counsel, Pepperdine law dean, Baylor University president and chancellor, private attorney |
| Epstein role | Senior member of Epstein’s defense team through Kirkland and Ellis during 2007 and 2008 |
| First documented meeting with the federal team | September 7, 2007 |
| Core documented activity | Opposed federal prosecution, challenged the agreement after Epstein affirmed it, transmitted allegations against prosecutors, resisted proposed survivor notification, and sought review by senior Justice Department officials |
| Final Justice Department response | The Criminal Division found that federal prosecution would not be improper or inappropriate. The Deputy Attorney General’s office later concluded that federal prosecution was appropriate and declined to intervene |
| Public position in 2019 | Starr called it ridiculous to describe Epstein’s resolution as a sweetheart deal and defended it as a global resolution |
| Other major institutional controversy | Baylor removed Starr as president after an external review found broad failures in the university response to sexual violence during his presidency |
| Verified financial issue | Baylor reported a payment of $4,520,199 to Starr connected to the 2016 personnel separation and legal settlement |
| Epstein involvement score | 4 of 5 |
The involvement score measures the depth, duration, access, and apparent consequence of a person’s documented connection to Epstein. It is not a finding of criminal guilt.
Before Epstein, Starr was a symbol of federal authority
Starr’s value to Epstein cannot be understood without his résumé.
President Ronald Reagan appointed Starr to the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1983. President George H. W. Bush later made him Solicitor General, the official responsible for representing the United States before the Supreme Court. In 1994, a federal judicial panel appointed him independent counsel in the investigation that began with Whitewater and expanded into the Monica Lewinsky matter. His report to Congress helped set the stage for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
By the time Starr joined Epstein’s defense, he was dean of Pepperdine University School of Law and a partner at Kirkland and Ellis. His name communicated institutional seriousness. He knew how senior federal officials thought, how internal Justice Department review worked, and how to frame a request as a question of legal principle rather than the desire of one wealthy client to avoid indictment.
Epstein had other formidable lawyers. Alan Dershowitz supplied constitutional arguments and media power. Roy Black, Jack Goldberger, Gerald Lefcourt, Lilly Ann Sanchez, Guy Lewis, and others brought criminal defense experience and Florida relationships. Lefkowitz became a central negotiator and prolific writer. Starr supplied the aura of a former judge and former Solicitor General asking the Department to police its own prosecutors.
That was lawful advocacy. It was also an advantage almost no ordinary defendant could purchase.
Starr entered the documented negotiations in September 2007
The federal investigation had been underway long before Starr’s first documented meeting. Palm Beach police began investigating Epstein in 2005. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Attorney’s Office later developed a much broader case. Federal prosecutors prepared charging options that could have exposed Epstein to serious prison time.
On September 7, 2007, Starr and Lefkowitz attended a meeting at the United States Attorney’s Office in West Palm Beach. According to the Office of Professional Responsibility report, this was the first meeting with the federal team for both men. The government side included United States Attorney Alexander Acosta, First Assistant United States Attorney Jeffrey Sloman, Villafaña, another prosecutor, the chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and supervisory FBI personnel.
Villafaña understood the purpose as an opportunity for the defense to explain why Epstein should not be prosecuted federally. The meeting therefore placed two nationally connected Kirkland lawyers directly before the senior officials responsible for the case.
The government did not immediately accept the defense position. The Office of Professional Responsibility report says Acosta reiterated that federal interests required a state plea that included sex offender registration, incarceration, and a process through which survivors could pursue compensation under federal law.
This chronology corrects an important overstatement sometimes made about Starr. The basic direction toward a state resolution existed before his first documented meeting. The agreement was signed on September 24, 2007. The evidence therefore does not justify saying that Starr alone invented the deal or personally wrote its central immunity language.
His importance becomes clearest in what happened next.
Epstein signed the agreement, then his lawyers attacked it
The September 24 agreement promised that the United States would not prosecute Epstein in South Florida if he satisfied specified conditions through a state case. It also contained protection for named individuals and any potential coconspirators. Read the agreement here: 2007 Nonprosecution Agreement.
Instead of promptly completing the state plea, Epstein’s defense continued to dispute important parts of the arrangement. The disagreement included the provision connected to civil damages for survivors under 18 United States Code section 2255, the form and timing of notice to survivors, the state offense, and whether a federal prosecution was legitimate at all.
On November 28, 2007, Starr wrote to Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher and requested a meeting. The Justice Department report says he argued that the South Florida office had improperly compelled Epstein to accept a civil damages provision as part of a state resolution. On the same day, Lefkowitz objected to the government’s plan to notify survivors about that provision and advised prosecutors that the defense was seeking access to Fisher.
Acosta responded to Starr in a seven page letter dated December 4. Acosta wrote that Epstein’s lawyers had reviewed and negotiated the agreement, then adopted it. He offered a stark choice: if Epstein believed the agreement unlawful or unfair, the government was ready to unwind it. Epstein did not accept that offer. On December 7, he signed a one sentence affirmation stating that he had no intention of unwinding the agreement.
That affirmation did not end the defense campaign.
Starr transmitted a package attacking the case and the prosecutor
On December 7 and December 11, Starr and Lefkowitz sent Acosta a new set of submissions. The package included what the defense called independent ethics opinions. One was written by former United States Attorney Joe Whitley and addressed alleged improprieties in the federal investigation. Another, written by a retired federal judge and former United States Attorney, challenged the agreement’s use of the federal civil damages provision.
On December 11, Starr transmitted two lengthy submissions written by Lefkowitz. They challenged the agreement and the background and conduct of the investigation. The materials accused the federal team, and Villafaña in particular, of overreach and improper behavior.
The original fax is an essential receipt. Starr’s cover letter introduced the defense package by invoking the combined experience of Epstein’s lawyers and characterizing the matter as extraordinary and troubling. The attached brief attacked the government’s approach to compensation and federal jurisdiction. Readers can examine the produced record here: December 2007 Starr and Lefkowitz submission.
These were claims made by Epstein’s advocates, not findings by a court or disciplinary body. That difference cannot be blurred. Later Justice Department reviewers did not accept the defense’s ultimate argument that federal prosecution was unwarranted. The Office of Professional Responsibility also did not find professional misconduct by the federal prosecutors whose conduct Epstein’s lawyers attacked.
The submissions nevertheless had an immediate institutional effect. Sloman directed Robert Senior, the new criminal chief, to conduct a fresh review of the evidence in light of the Kirkland and Ellis correspondence. Prosecutors were required to revisit a case in which an agreement had already been signed and affirmed.
This is one of the clearest measures of Starr’s role. He did not merely add his name to a defense roster. Correspondence sent under his name helped compel another layer of internal scrutiny.
The survivor notice fight
The most disturbing part of the record concerns notice to the girls and young women whose rights were being resolved without their participation.
Federal personnel debated whether and how to tell survivors about the agreement and the state plea. The proposed letter would have informed them of the resolution and the process for seeking compensation. The defense objected.
The Office of Professional Responsibility report records that a Starr and Lefkowitz letter called the proposed notice wholly inappropriate under any circumstances. The letter strongly urged Acosta to withhold it until the lawyers could discuss the matter with Assistant Attorney General Fisher.
Sloman responded that federal victim rights law required appropriate notice and a reasonable opportunity for survivors to confer with the government. Villafaña prepared letters for multiple survivors on December 7. That same day, Sanchez asked the office to hold off while the defense discussed their contents. Starr and Lefkowitz also submitted their ethics materials. Sloman then instructed Villafaña to hold the letter.
It would be inaccurate to claim from this sequence that Starr alone secretly ordered the government not to contact survivors. He had no authority to issue such an order. Government officials made the decisions, and responsibility for complying with federal victim rights law remained with the government.
It is accurate to say that Starr joined a written effort urging the government not to send its proposed notice and tied that demand to the defense effort to reach a senior official in Washington. The government then paused the letters.
The consequence was not abstract. Survivors remained outside negotiations that affected their rights, while Epstein and his attorneys communicated directly and repeatedly with the officials controlling the case. A federal district judge later ruled that prosecutors violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act by failing to confer with victims before entering the agreement and by concealing the agreement while telling victims the investigation remained ongoing. That ruling was later affected by appellate procedural decisions, but its factual account remains central to understanding how the agreement was handled. Read the produced court record here: Crime Victims’ Rights Act ruling.
The defense sought review above the trial team
The pressure campaign continued into 2008.
On December 14, 2007, Starr joined Dershowitz, Lefkowitz, Lefcourt, and Martin Weinberg at another meeting with Acosta and the federal team. The defense raised additional objections, including an argument that the proposed state charge did not match the facts. When the lawyers indicated that they would seek review in Washington, Acosta contacted Fisher and asked that the Department provide it.
The Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section began examining whether a federal prosecution had a legitimate basis. Even that review did not satisfy the defense as a final step. On February 29, 2008, Lefkowitz requested a meeting with section leadership. Starr spoke with Fisher and made clear that the defense would want an audience with her if the section supported prosecution.
At a March 12 meeting, Starr, Lefkowitz, and Weinberg presented the defense position to senior criminal division personnel. A Justice Department participant later recalled that Starr did most of the presentation.
The defense followed with multiple written submissions. Starr repeated accusations concerning leaks and the encouragement of civil litigation. On May 14, he thanked Fisher for speaking with him the previous day, restated defense complaints, and asked her to meet with him, Lefkowitz, and Whitley.
The Criminal Division completed its evaluation. On May 15, it informed the defense that federal prosecution would not be improper or inappropriate. The Department did not validate the central defense demand.
Starr then took the matter higher.
The appeal to the Deputy Attorney General
On May 19, 2008, Starr and Whitley sent Deputy Attorney General Mark Filip a letter asking for senior review of what they called federal involvement in a quintessentially state matter. They argued that federal prosecution was unwarranted and that the conduct of prosecutors and the terms of the agreement demanded further examination. A second letter followed on May 27.
The Office of the Deputy Attorney General reviewed the defense submissions and the prosecution record. John Roth, a senior official handling the review, later told investigators that he examined the written materials but did not conduct a new investigation or interview witnesses.
On June 23, Roth wrote Starr and Lefkowitz that the office had completed a thorough review and would not intervene. His conclusion was unambiguous: even if the office substituted its own judgment for that of the United States Attorney, it believed a federal prosecution was appropriate.
That finding is decisive for evaluating the defense rhetoric. Starr was entitled to argue that federal jurisdiction or prosecutorial behavior was improper. But two levels of Justice Department review rejected the demand to stop the case. The defense did not prove that the prosecution lacked a legitimate federal basis.
Roth was sufficiently concerned about further delay that he warned the Attorney General’s office that Epstein’s lawyers might seek yet another appeal and recommended that their calls not be taken.
Starr then sent Acosta a concluding message. He acknowledged that the defense had filed and argued its internal appellate motions and lost. He also described Epstein as a man he had come to deeply admire.
One week later, on June 30, Epstein entered the state pleas required by the agreement.
What Starr’s campaign achieved
The internal appeals did not eliminate the state plea. They did not persuade senior Justice Department reviewers that a federal prosecution was inappropriate. They did not create the immunity promise, which had already been signed.
They still mattered.
First, they consumed months. The agreement required a plea in 2007, yet the case did not conclude until June 2008.
Second, they repeatedly shifted attention away from Epstein’s alleged conduct and toward accusations against the investigators and prosecutors. Villafaña and her colleagues had to answer extensive defense claims, prepare chronologies, produce evidence for fresh review, and defend the legitimacy of their own work.
Third, they reinforced an extreme imbalance of access. Survivors struggled to learn what was happening. Epstein’s lawyers communicated with the United States Attorney, the head of the Criminal Division, the Assistant Attorney General, the Deputy Attorney General, and officials near the Attorney General.
Fourth, the campaign helped preserve a posture in which the government treated an extraordinarily favorable agreement as the baseline even while Epstein delayed compliance and challenged its terms. Federal personnel repeatedly considered terminating the agreement and indicting him. That did not happen.
Starr was not the only cause of these outcomes. Acosta and other government officials retained decision making authority. Lefkowitz produced much of the detailed written work. Numerous defense lawyers participated. The proper conclusion is systemic: Starr was a high value component of an elite team whose access, persistence, and prestige kept the federal case under pressure until Epstein received the state resolution.
For the full system account, read The Enablers Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida Deal.
Julie K. Brown’s reporting and the scorched earth description
Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown reconstructed this legal campaign through documents, interviews, and survivor testimony. In her book Perversion of Justice, Brown described Starr as a fixer who used political connections to push the case into senior Justice Department review. A prosecutor quoted in reporting about the book called the strategy a scorched earth defense and identified Starr as central to it.
That characterization is a journalist’s assessment supported partly by an unnamed source. It should not be presented as an official government finding. The underlying chronology, however, is independently confirmed by the Justice Department’s own report. Starr contacted Fisher. He led presentations. He transmitted attacks on the case. He joined Whitley in asking the Deputy Attorney General to intervene. Each review created through those efforts ended without the relief the defense requested.
Brown’s work is especially valuable because it restores the human stakes that legal memoranda often erase. The case was not merely a dispute over section numbers, federalism, or professional etiquette. It concerned a serial pattern of sexual exploitation involving minors, and the people harmed by it were denied the access routinely available to Epstein’s lawyers.
Starr defended the deal after Epstein’s death
In August 2019, after Epstein was arrested on new federal sex trafficking charges and died in federal custody, Starr appeared on Fox News. Asked about the description of the Florida resolution as a sweetheart deal, he called that characterization ridiculous. He described the agreement as a creative global resolution and emphasized incarceration, registration, counsel for survivors, and compensation.
He also defended Epstein’s work release treatment as consistent with Palm Beach County practice as he understood it.
This was not a neutral historical explanation. It was a former defense lawyer publicly defending an outcome from which his client had benefited. Readers should weigh it as Starr’s position, not as an independent finding.
The known record complicates that defense. Epstein served less than thirteen months, spent up to twelve hours a day outside custody for six days each week, and was permitted to work from an office associated with one of his lawyers. The federal agreement remained hidden from survivors during critical stages. The federal investigation ended. Potential coconspirators received protection. No federal trial tested the evidence developed in South Florida.
Calling the agreement global does not answer whether it was just.
Baylor and another institutional failure involving sexual violence
Starr became president of Baylor University in 2010 and chancellor in 2013. During his tenure, reports of sexual violence and the university response produced a major institutional crisis.
In 2015, Baylor retained Pepper Hamilton to conduct an external review. Baylor’s published findings state that the review included more than one million items and interviews with more than sixty five people, including survivors. The Board later explained that Pepper Hamilton delivered detailed briefings but did not prepare a separate written report. The public Findings of Fact were developed by the Board with guidance from outside counsel.
Those findings were severe. Baylor’s Title IX implementation was slow, fragmented, and inadequately resourced. Senior leadership lacked consistent or meaningful engagement. Student conduct investigations were described as wholly inadequate. Some administrators discouraged reporting or participation, and one response constituted retaliation. The review described victim blaming, poor support, failure to identify patterns, and specific failures involving football and athletics.
The findings generally describe the university, senior leadership, administrators, athletics personnel, and football staff. They do not name Starr as the personal actor behind every failure. Any article claiming that the report found Starr personally covered up each assault would exceed the text.
The Board nevertheless connected accountability to leadership. Its May 26, 2016 announcement said the findings revealed a lack of strong institutional management and control. It stated that personnel decisions focused on the points where the greatest accountability and obligation should have been exercised. Starr ceased serving as president effective May 31. He resigned as chancellor on June 1 and later separated from his law faculty position.
Baylor’s tax filing disclosed a $4,520,199 payment to Starr associated with the 2016 separation and legal settlement. Baylor said the money came from reserves and reflected legal settlements related to the personnel changes.
The Baylor record does not prove misconduct in the Epstein case. The Epstein record does not prove Starr personally caused every Baylor failure. The relevance is narrower and still important. In two powerful institutions, Starr occupied a consequential role while systems responding to sexual exploitation failed the people those systems were supposed to protect.
The Christopher Kloman sentencing letter
In 2013, while serving as Baylor president, Starr was among more than ninety people who submitted letters on behalf of former private school teacher Christopher Kloman. Kloman had pleaded guilty to offenses involving the sexual abuse of girls decades earlier and received a forty three year sentence.
The existence of Starr’s letter is documented by contemporaneous court reporting. It is not evidence that Starr approved of Kloman’s crimes. Sentencing letters commonly ask judges to consider aspects of a defendant’s life, and writing one is not professional misconduct.
It is nevertheless relevant to a complete public record because it reflects another instance in which Starr lent his stature to a man facing accountability for sexual offenses against children. The article should neither suppress that fact nor inflate it beyond what it proves.
Complaints and professional discipline
Starr’s independent counsel investigation generated intense criticism, including allegations that his office leaked grand jury information and exceeded the proper role of a prosecutor. A federal judge initially found enough evidence to examine possible leaks. A federal appeals court later reversed a contempt proceeding concerning one publication because the disclosed internal prosecutorial view was not protected grand jury material. Starr’s successor, Robert Ray, reported that misconduct complaints against the office lacked merit and that no person in the office had been found to violate the grand jury secrecy rule.
Starr’s ethics adviser Sam Dash resigned in 1998 and accused him of crossing from prosecutor to advocate during impeachment proceedings. Starr disputed that assessment and defended his testimony to Congress.
These events belong in a dossier about Starr’s professional history, but accuracy requires the outcomes. Allegations and criticism were real. They did not produce a verified finding that Starr illegally leaked grand jury material.
This review found no reliable evidence that Starr was criminally charged, disbarred, or publicly disciplined by a bar authority for his representation of Epstein. It also found no verified personal bankruptcy, tax lien, fraud judgment, or comparable personal financial proceeding. Absence from the sources reviewed is not proof that no private dispute ever existed. It is a limit on what may responsibly be claimed.
Defense rights and ethical accountability can coexist
Epstein had a constitutional right to counsel. His attorneys could test jurisdiction, challenge evidence, object to legal provisions, contact supervisors, and advocate for the most favorable lawful outcome. A lawyer is not guilty of a client’s crimes simply because the lawyer represents that client.
That principle does not end public inquiry.
Defense lawyers are still accountable for what they say, how they use institutional power, and whether their factual accusations are supported. Government officials are accountable for yielding to pressure, withholding information from survivors, and allowing wealth to purchase extraordinary access. Historians and journalists are entitled to examine how lawful advocacy can contribute to an unjust system.
Starr’s role is significant because the documents reveal the mechanics of elite protection. A famous former prosecutor challenged the legitimacy of prosecutors investigating a wealthy man. He helped route objections past the people who knew the evidence and toward officials at the top of the Department. He opposed the government’s proposed communication with survivors while his own client enjoyed constant communication through counsel. He continued seeking review after earlier reviewers refused to stop the case.
This was not a secret cabal. It was institutional power operating through letters, meetings, credentials, access, delay, and the professional courtesy extended to famous lawyers.
Receipt index
| Receipt | What it supports | Limitation |
| EFTA00176111 | Starr’s December 2007 cover letter and the extensive Kirkland and Ellis defense submission | Contains advocacy and accusations, not adjudicated findings |
| EFTA00013989 | June 2008 Kirkland and Ellis correspondence opposing federal action | Must be read in context with the Department’s rejection of intervention |
| EFTA00013811 | Kirkland and Ellis arguments concerning evidence, federal prosecution, and the agreement | Defense position only |
| EFTA00013749 | Correspondence during the dispute over implementation and review | Does not prove the allegations made in correspondence |
| EFTA00013698 | Additional communication in the post agreement campaign | Context and authorship should be checked page by page |
| EFTA00013801 | Related Kirkland and Ellis submission | Defense advocacy |
| EFTA00067343 | Point by point defense attack on the government account | Allegations were contested and not established as misconduct |
| EFTA00067353 | Defense summary of claimed prosecutorial misconduct | A summary of accusations, not an official ethics finding |
| EFTA00009116 | Acosta’s Office of Professional Responsibility interview | Retrospective testimony that must be compared with contemporaneous records |
| EFTA00009016 | Office of Professional Responsibility testimony about the negotiations and resolution | Transcript evidence, not a judicial judgment |
| EFTA00040089 | The nonprosecution agreement | Establishes text, not the private motives of each participant |
| EFTA00027666 | Federal court ruling concerning survivor rights and concealment | Later appellate procedure affected the litigation posture |
Assessment
Kenneth Starr’s Epstein involvement score is 4 of 5.
The score reflects sustained and consequential representation, access to senior officials, direct participation in presentations, repeated written escalation, opposition to proposed survivor notice, and a later public defense of the outcome. It stops short of 5 because the record reviewed does not show that Starr originated Epstein’s abuse, participated in it, principally drafted the agreement, controlled government decisions, or was accused by survivors of taking part in Epstein’s sexual conduct.
The most defensible conclusion is also the most revealing. Starr was not the architect of every concession. He was one of the people who made Epstein’s resistance harder for the government to overcome. His reputation converted a wealthy defendant’s objections into questions that senior officials repeatedly had to entertain. Survivors received no comparable channel.
Epstein’s protection system did not depend only on corruption that could be charged in court. It also depended on socially accepted forms of power: elite counsel, professional deference, unlimited time, institutional access, and the ability to make the government defend itself.
Kenneth Starr embodied that advantage.
Related EpsteinWiki coverage
The Enablers Behind Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida Deal
Alexander Acosta Transcript and the Federal Case That Was Never Tried
Sources
- United States Department of Justice, Office of Professional Responsibility, Report of Investigation into the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida’s Resolution of Its 2006 to 2008 Federal Criminal Investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, November 2020. https://www.justice.gov/opr/page/file/1336471/dl
- United States Department of Justice, statement concerning the Office of Professional Responsibility report, November 12, 2020. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/statement-doj-office-professional-responsibility-report-jeffrey-epstein-2006-2008
- Searchable copy of the full Office of Professional Responsibility report. https://www.epstein-search.com/document/263
- Nonprosecution agreement, September 24, 2007. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00040089
- Kenneth Starr cover letter and Kirkland and Ellis submission, December 2007. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00176111
- Kirkland and Ellis correspondence, June 2008. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00013989
- Kirkland and Ellis defense submission. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00013811
- Related defense correspondence. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00013749
- Related defense correspondence. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00013698
- Related Kirkland and Ellis submission. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00013801
- Kirkland and Ellis response to the United States Attorney’s Office. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00067343
- Defense summary of misconduct allegations. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00067353
- Alexander Acosta Office of Professional Responsibility interview. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00009116
- Office of Professional Responsibility testimony concerning the agreement. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00009016
- Federal district court ruling in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act litigation. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00027666
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- Fox News, “Ken Starr: Ridiculous to say Jeffrey Epstein got a sweetheart deal in 2008,” August 15, 2019. https://www.foxnews.com/media/ridiculous-to-say-epstein-sweetheart-deal-starr
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- The Washington Post, “Former Potomac School teacher sentenced to 43 years in decades old molestations,” October 18, 2013. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/former-potomac-school-teacher-to-be-sentenced-in-decades-old-molestations/2013/10/17/b41ba620-3743-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html
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