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WASHINGTON. DC 20510

April 12, 2019

Mr. Corey Amundson

Director and Chief Counsel

Office of Professional Responsibility
US. Department ofJustice

950 Avenue NW
Washington, DC. 20530

Dear Mr. Amundson,

We write to request the Department ofJustice?s (DOJ) Of?ce ofProfessional
Responsibility (OPR) make public all ?ndings from its investigation into whether federal
prosecutors in the US. Attorney?s Of?ce for the Southern District ofFlorida committed
professional misconduct when dealing with the criminal matter involving Jeffrey Epstein.

There has been substantial public interest in the propriety and legality oer. Epstein?s
plea agreement, which was brokered on behalfof DOJ by then?United States Attorney R.
Alexander Acosta, who currently serves as Secretary of Labor. The agreement allowed Epstein
to avoid federal prosecution for sex traf?cking charges involving dozens of underage victims in
exchange for pleading guilty to two charges in a state court. The agreement, which reportedly
shut down an ongoing Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into international sex
traf?cking by Mr. Epstein and his associates, was signed despite the existence ofa 53-page draft
indictment prepared by prosecutors outlining Mr. Epstein?s crimes.

Several of Mr. Epstein?s victims have taken civil action in federal court, including one
victim who stated she was recruited into Mr. Epstein?s ?sexually exploitative world? at the age of
16 while working as a changing room assistant at the Mar-a?Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Shortly after OPR announced it was investigating the handling of Mr. Epstein?s case, US.
District Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that federal prosecutors in Secretary Acosta?s of?ce violated
the Crime Victims? Rights Act by failing to appropriately notify Mr. Epstein?s victims of the
non-prosecution agreement. In the opinion, thejudge wrote that prosecutors worked to conceal
the existence of the agreement from the victims in order to ?mislead the victims to believe that
federal prosecution was still a possibility.?

OPR has indicated that it will share its results at the conclusion of its investigation ?as
appropriate? and ?consistent to past practices,? but OPR has not yet committed to share a full
version ofthe report with its ?ndings with Congress, the survivors, and the public. Though OPR
policies and procedures substantially restrict the use and public disclosure of its records, there
must be legitimate oversight by Congress and answers for survivors and the public, particularly
when those records concern a present Cabinet of?cial.

As new information continues to be revealed, it has become ever clearer that the non-
prosecution agreement was a miscarriage ofjustice and that the victims and the public deserve a

full accounting of how this matter was handled by the attorneys at Accordingly, we ask that
once OPR has concluded its investigation into the handling of the Epstein matter, it publish all of
its ?ndings without delay.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

 

 

Sincerely,
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Patty MurrayU Tim Kaine

United States Senator United States Senator