Jeffrey Epstein accusers had ‘credibility challenges’ including past arrests, changing stories, DOJ memos detail
NY Post
South Florida federal prosecutors pitched a 60-count indictment of Jeffrey Epstein on charges including child prostitution and sex trafficking in the late-2000s — but fretted that their ca se would be undone by some of the pedophile’s alleged victims, according to newly released files.
The Justice Department made public 20 additional documents related to the disgraced financier Thursday evening, including — for the first time — memos laying out the aborted Florida case against Epstein, who died in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on separate sex trafficking charges.
Three memos drafted by the office of then-South Florida US Attorney Alex Acosta suggested taking Epstein into custody as early as May 2007 and seeking the seizure of his Palm Beach, Fla. home and two private jets. However, the documents also outlined lines of attack that could be used by Epstein’s all-star legal team to place reasonable doubt in the minds of a potential jury.
Top of the list of potential weaknesses was the girl whose parents initially flagged Epstein’s proclivities to the Palm Beach Police Department in 2005.
“Copies of a MySpace page credited to [redacted] were provided to the State Attorney’s Office and to our office,” reads the “possible credibility challenges” section from a February 2008 version of the prosecuting memo. “On that page, [redacted] states that she is 21 years’ [sic] old, she drinks and has taken drugs, she shoplifts, and she earns $250,000 each year. The MySpace page also shows a picture of [redacted] wrestling with her boyfriend and a photograph of a naked girl lying on a beach … During her first sessions with the police, she also minimized what happened with Epstein, denying that he touched her.”
The memo then sought to address each of those concerns, noting that the accuser denied the MySpace page was hers — a claim investigators could neither confirm or refute — and adding that prosecutors had secured two experts to testify that sex abuse victims “minimize what happened to them until they feel more secure about the interviewer.”
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