47] 1 action was filed back in 2007 at a time when 2 Mr. Edwards, and a couple days later, I did not know 3 that there was a nonprosecution agreement that had been 4 entered into between the U.S. Government and Jeffrey 5 Epstein giving immunity to Epstein, four named women, 6 and any other potential co-conspirators for sexually 7 abusing minors over an extended period of time. 8 And Mr. Edwards and a couple days later I, we 9 filed -- it was a petition seeking to get access to the 10 nonprosecution agreement and also seeking to invalidate 11 that agreement, which essentially, gave immunity to at 12 least five and potentially, you Know, many more persons 13 from federal prosecution for federal sex crimes. 14 When the pleading was filed in the District 15 Court, what happened I believe was that the -- you know, 16 it was styled as a petition and the clerk refused to set 17 set an emergency hearing so I think there's a 18 hand-scrawled notation that it's an emergency hearing. 19 And at that point it went into the court and 20 I believe the court gave it a civil caption. The 21 caption that we see reflected here, it's 9:08-CV-80736, 22 and it's a civil case. However the ultimate aim of the 23 action is to try to invalidate a nonprosecution 24 agreement and allow criminal prosecution. 25 Now, our position, as I understand it, and as ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021870