‘Violence to the Statutory Text’: Two Female Judges Issue Blistering Dissents as Court Rules Epstein Victims Can’t Sue Over Prosecutors Who Lied About Sweetheart Deal Colin Kalmbacher A federal court has, for the second time in as many years, told victims of Jeffrey Epstein that they cannot void the plea agreement that minimized his punishment, kept them silenced, and purported to immunize his alleged co-conspirators. In a series of opinions and dissents spanning 185 pages, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that survivor Courtney Wild has no standing to challenge how the government’s decades-old deal with the deceased pedophile, which included an unusual non-prosecution agreement for his accused co-conspirators, by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida in 2007.