Tag - Kirkland and Ellis

The former White House official helped negotiate Epstein’s secret agreement, pressed prosecutors to stop contacting survivors, escalated the case through Main Justice, and continued representing Epstein after his conviction Jeffrey Epstein did not escape a federal courtroom because his lawyers quietly found one clever loophole. He paid for a campaign. That campaign disputed federal jurisdiction, ... Read more

Snapshot Jay Phillip Lefkowitz is an American attorney, former senior litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis, former White House official, and former United States Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea. Lefkowitz became one of the most consequential attorneys on Jeffrey Epstein’s defense team during the 2007 negotiations that ended the federal investigation in ... Read more

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 ... Read more