Associated Press Associated Press. District Judge Richard Berman said Thursday. At a hearing Monday, Assistant U. One of his accusers who said she was sexually abused by Epstein when she was 14 in Palm Beach, Florida, pleaded with the judge to keep him jailed. That came after the Miami Herald reported the circumstances of his state court conviction in , which led to a month jail term and a plea deal that allowed him to avoid a federal prosecution.
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta resigned last week after coming under renewed criticism for overseeing the decade-old arrangement as U.
Lawyers for Epstein said their client has stayed clean since pleading guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution charges in Florida in and that the federal government is reneging on the plea deal.
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