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Signed shortly after the agreement was signed, epsteins counsels indicated that epstein may not comply with the agreement. and the agreement was appealed at very levels within the justice department. and she details in this affidavit, an affidavit that is also corroborated by the fbi case agent, how she and he and the office was concerned that epstein might not comply. and we would have to go to trial. and we had to weigh the issue of how much to disclose against the issue of if we have to go to...

To that are really the institutions that are holding his money. if he is holding his assets in a bank, they obviously have a number of legal obligations to another customer. they have to know the source of his funds, how it down like made his money. if they wanted to look into it, with the banks know, what other financial institutions know that are holding his funds, that is a good place to start. >> dana: there is again made dominic who said the courts, "epstein was deeply involved in fraud. ep...

What happens. >> its a difficult thing to generalize this case to any other case but the way that they are handled can be looked at broadly. you have allegations that the question for prosecutors is theres a big difference, as the secretary said, between sufficient evidence to go to trial and a guarantee that youre going to have a conviction. and whether you can get something in the middle where you guarantee that somebodys on a sex offender registry, whether as restitution, and supposedly they ...

Questions, the really important questions. so i have a couple thoughts. first, there is no reason to seal this other than to protect epstein. and you wonder why you would protect a pedophile. second, if mr. acosta really thought he didnt have sufficient evidence at the time, seems like he did, but if he really did not, there is another option. you continue your investigation. you dont have to close a case. you dont have to permit a defendant to enter into a nonprosecution agreement. that is an e...

Youre with? >> im kaitlyn collins for cnn. would you make this same agreement today? >> so these questions are always very difficult. because we now have 12 years of knowledge and hindsight, and we live in a very different world. todays world treats victims very, very differently. todays world does not allow some of the victim-shaming that could have taken place at trial 12 years ago. todays world understands that when interviewing victims when illiciting testimony, that testimony can sometimes ...

One of the really disturbing things about this case is theres a record here. the documents that i shared today we have shared previously with the media, yet i have seen no reference to any of these documents in the perspective of some of these prosecutors. all of these documents are publicly available. they couldve been pulled up by anyone in this room. and so, you know, there is a record -- i wasnt at main justice. i do not have a full list of the individuals that reviewed this matter at main j...

With the charges. and i understand that youre saying now that it is never a slam dunk. but it seems like youre making this out to be a case in which you held the possibility of a federal indictment over the head of mr. epstein to get him to plead to a lesser crime and that in and of itself is against the a.d.a. -- >> i do not think that the office violated the a.b.a. standards by negotiating strongly and forcefully. sir. >> so standing here today, are you basically saying that you feel that you ...

Did you believe that the evidence against epstein would have been insufficient to make a conviction beyond reasonable doubt? if so, why was a knot in the interest of justice to charge him with these crimes? >> again, i would refer you to the documents i provided. there is a big gulf between sufficient evidence to go to trial and sufficient evidence to be confident in the outcome of that trial. and so if i could come and i will give you a follow-up in a minute, if i could, when this case, and i p...

He pled guilty to that state case. i think all of that is significant and theres a lot of pressure on him to explain exactly what happened and why he reached that plea deal, what chuck schumer called a sweetheart deal. and he said he did the best he could with the evidence he had at the time. i expect were going to hear more of that from acosta. does he survive this? president trump yesterday defended him but did leave the door open for changing his mind. he said hes going to look into exactly w...

Agreement, it was correctly described as a sweetheart deal in the way he described it i think doesnt really fit those who have had that job before. >> shepard: he refused -- he said he wouldnt really comment on whether epsteins money and powerful lawyers had an effect on the case. >> what can you say question mike thats obviously the answe answer. its hard for someone to say yes its because he had very powerful lawyers. >> shepard: i got the feeling that he was speaking to an audience of one tod...