] | moment that Epstein had finally did June 30, 2008. In the interim, accordi | were only told, “This case i | A lawsuit that Bradley ‘ Fort Lauderdale, filed in fi 5 Rights Act, or CVRA (title CHAPTER 50 | which states that “victims ] 4 ing the right to be heard ir } : be precluded from court pr E fairly.” 4 ; According to him, pross q of the victims. Edwards, vy Jane Doe: F ebruary 2008 4 q knew that this suit against . F q monetary recovery of any : sa result of the non-prosecution agreement, a fifty-three- : q also KDeW that if the gover: Ac indictment that federal prosecutors had prepared a 7 ~~ me a contract thai against Jeffrey Epstein—one that claimed he'd abused a 4 ‘a ee Epstein's — dozens of underage women— never was filed. x . 7 a Tah ae But as far as lawyers representing Epstein’s victims were con- a q pnedy wou d have been i cerned, the fact that those victims were not consulted about the # . while it .® difficult to know non-prosecution agreement was inexcusable. The “government 4 7 . is overturn e deliberately kept crime victims ‘in the dark’ so that it ala enter q 7 a ew pstein a into a plea arrangement designed to prevent the victims from : 4 sta a ° vans is t 2 raising any objections,” they would argue, in conuenis filed on q q a me ° t need February 10, 2016. For nine months, the lawyers claimed, from a Bs e o , ; a the time that the NPA was signed, on September 24, 2007, 4 q a —s ames: i Krischer’s office, “doing Epstein’s bidding, [had] concealed the J L a Seale and s0 edad € NPA’s existence from victim|s]” and continued to do so until the : : Tyone involved into the n 190 4 4 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010531