‘TERSON Fittuy Ricu that side of the political aisle. He “The parties anticipate that this agreement will not be made nton’s nemesis, Ken Starr, work- part of any public record,” the document concludes. “If the ke sure they'd covered the bases, | United States receives a Freedom of Information Act request or Roy Black— the lawyer who'd any compulsory process commanding the disclosure of the agree- of rape and kept Rush Limbaugh | ment, it will provide notice to Epstein before making that il drug use—and Jay Lefkowitz, ' disclosure.” _with US attorney R. Alexander Remarkably, despite assurances they'd received from the a feds, none of the victims was consulted prior to the drafting of 5 attorney’s office reached a for- 7 this NPA. team: the United States would = 4 If Epstein did not sign the agreement, he faced a fifty-seven- yr of prosecution by the state of .. 3 count indictment and a decade or more in prison. But Epstein’s , : a team of lawyers had gotten him a deal so sweet it could have rot- nt (NPA) was drafted; among q 3 ted all the teeth in South Florida. that he would not be prosecuted f 4 For all his protestations of innocence, there was every reason ida for felony offenses involving a a in the world to agree to an NPA. rls. (By that point, thirty known y 7 On September 24, 2007, Epstein did sign it. Instead it allowed him to plead a ’ Once again, none of the victims had been consulted or wr solicitation of prostitution and 4 a notified. srostitution. The NPA established ‘ q ein’s victims to sue him in civil ~ 3 lary step of ensuring that “any q ’ ipstein’s would be immune from 4 q n’s agreement to plead guilty and q } the manner described above, if q 1 of the terms and conditions of : q ‘ates also agrees that it will no q against any potential co-conspita : . t stated, mentioning Sarah Kellen 4 le. j 7 188 : ' 189 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010530