DOJ-OGR-00000226.pdf

--- Page 1 --- The extracted text is: **Page 3** 4-12. In 2005, the parents of a 14-year-old girl complained to the Palm Beach police after learning that Epstein had paid their daughter for a massage. Pet. App. 94a. The following year, a state grand jury indicted Epstein for soliciting prostitution. Ibid. But because the local police "were dissatisfied with the State Attorney's handling of the case and believed that the state grand jury's charge did not address the totality of Epstein's conduct, they referred the matter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in West Palm Beach." Ibid. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida (Florida USAO) worked with the FBI "to develop a federal case against Epstein." Pet. App. 94a. "[I]n the course of the investigation, they discovered additional victims." Ibid. An Assistant U.S. Attorney drafted a 60-count indictment against Epstein and a "lengthy memorandum summarizing the evidence" against him. Id. at 94a-95a. In 2007, however, the Florida USAO entered into a written nonprosecution agreement (NPA) with Epstein. Id. at 5a, 24a-38a. The NPA began by describing the state and federal investigations into Epstein's conduct and the potential federal charges that the investigation by the Florida USAO and FBI supported. Pet. App. 24a-25a. The agreement noted that Epstein sought "to resolve globally his state and federal criminal liability." Id. at 25a. It then provided: [O]n the authority of R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, prosecution in this District for [the federal] offenses shall be deferred in favor of prosecution by the State of Florida, provided that Epstein abides by the following conditions and the requirements of this Agreement set forth below. **Footer:** DOJ-OGR-00000226