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Sort of legal factors at play that i think make this case just a little bit more complicated than sort of an outright -- there was impropriety, and a sweetheart deal, and it's kind of all swept up in that way. >> jessica: like what? >> alex: for example, there is the difference between the resources the state had available versus what the feds had available. >> jessica: but the indictment was ready to go. >> alex: there's the fact in the case of the federal -- or, for the feds, that they were trying to avoid double jeopardy by avoiding just a single prostitution count on the stateside. so i th...

Negotiations between mr. epstein's lawyers and mr. aco a acosta. the state attorney's office was not a party to those meetings or negotiations and definitely had no part in the federal non-prosecution agreement and the unusual confidentiality arrangement that kept everything hidden from the victims. it he was concerned with the state's case and felt he had to rescue the matter, he would have moved forward with the 5 3-page indictment that his own office drafted. instead, mr. acosta brokered a secret plea deal in violation of the crime victims rights act. acosta defended his position as labor s...

That they did reach exactly why epstein was going to be in court. so some of the victims' attorneys were under the impression that he was pleading to a state charge but that the federal investigation was still continuing. and the judge ruled in this case that they did -- prosecutors did mislead the victims in thinking they were going forward with the case. >> obviously all this begs the question why. why did acosta do this? why did he seem friendlier to jeffrey epstein and his attorney than to the victims? why did he break with convention in this case? so radically? and that hasn't been answer...

Virgin islands. so they should have -- he should have asked for help. he should have continued the case. he should have tried, for example, flip one of the people who worked for him. he had a whole menagerie of people who worked for him. pilots and schedulers and drivers, you know, it just went on and on and on. and so why didn't you get one of them to talk? why didn't you get his computers? his computers were -- they never subpoenaed his computers. >> these are all such interesting questions. and more obviously will come out now that he's going to be -- he has been charged in new york. and it...

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