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People (15)

  • Alexander Acosta Alexander Acosta is the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who approved Jeffrey Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement and resigned as Secretary of Labor in July 2019.
  • Andrew Lourie Federal prosecutor who managed the West Palm Beach office during the Epstein investigation, twice acted as chief of the Public Integrity Section, and left for Criminal Division leadership while the non-prosecution agreement was negotiated.
  • Ann Marie Villafana Assistant U.S. Attorney in West Palm Beach who opened the 2006 federal Epstein investigation, drafted a 60-count indictment, negotiated and signed the 2007 non-prosecution agreement, and left the office in August 2019.
  • Drew Oosterbaan Justice Department prosecutor who as chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section pressed for Jeffrey Epstein's federal prosecution in 2007, then issued the 2008 review letter leaving the decision to Alexander Acosta.
  • Eugene Propper Federal prosecutor of the Letelier murder, from whom the CIA withheld its 1976 knowledge of the Chilean agents' passports, and who in 1988 formed a counterterrorism consultancy with the FBI men from the case.
  • Griffin Bell Georgia lawyer and Fifth Circuit judge who, as Carter's Attorney General, testified for the FISA bill, countersigned Liddy's commutation, and headed the department that charged FBI officials Felt and Miller and two ITT executives.
  • Jeffrey Sloman First Assistant U.S. Attorney in Miami during the Epstein non-prosecution agreement, who negotiated its addendum, supervised the case after Acosta's recusal, then led the office before entering white-collar defense practice.
  • John N. Mitchell Nixon's law partner and 1968 campaign manager, Attorney General from 1969 to 1972 and 1972 reelection committee head, acquitted in the Vesco case in 1974 and convicted in the Watergate cover-up in 1975.
  • Marvin Shoob Federal judge in Atlanta who in 1992 let Christopher Drogoul withdraw his guilty plea, removed himself from the BNL case saying the bank's Rome officers had approved the Iraqi loans, and called the defendants pawns.
  • Matthew Menchel Criminal Division chief in the Miami U.S. Attorney's Office who conveyed the 2007 two-year state plea offer to Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers, left for Kobre & Kim weeks later, and later dined with Epstein.
  • Michael Abbell Former head of the Justice Department's Office of International Affairs who became a Washington lawyer for the Rodríguez Orejuela brothers of the Cali cartel and was convicted in 1998 of conspiring to launder its money.
  • Pam Bondi Florida attorney general from 2011 to 2019, registered agent of Qatar at Ballard Partners, and U.S. Attorney General from February 2025 until her removal in April 2026 during the Epstein files dispute.
  • Richard Kleindienst Deputy attorney general and then attorney general under Nixon, sworn in five days before the Watergate break-in, who pleaded guilty in 1974 to not answering the Senate fully about the ITT antitrust settlement.
  • Todd Blanche Former Southern District of New York prosecutor and criminal defense lawyer for Donald Trump who, as Deputy Attorney General, interviewed Ghislaine Maxwell and ran the Epstein files release before becoming Attorney General in 2026.
  • Webster Hubbell Rose Law Firm partner and associate attorney general who resigned in 1994 over his billings, was paid over 500,000 dollars by seventeen supporters of the president, among them the Lippo Group, and went to prison.

Organizations (5)

  • Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General Internal watchdog of the Justice Department whose June 2023 report on Jeffrey Epstein's custody found jail staff failures but no evidence contradicting the FBI's finding of no criminality in his death.
  • Office of Professional Responsibility Justice Department office created in 1975 after Watergate to investigate misconduct by department lawyers, whose 2020 Epstein report found no misconduct by five Florida prosecutors but faulted Alexander Acosta's judgment.
  • U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida Federal prosecutor's office for South Florida, headquartered in Miami, which investigated Jeffrey Epstein from 2006 and resolved the case in 2007 through a non-prosecution agreement immunizing his co-conspirators.
  • U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York Federal prosecutor's office for Manhattan, the Bronx and six northern counties, which indicted Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 through its Public Corruption Unit, convicted Ghislaine Maxwell, and charged his jail guards.
  • Witness Protection Program Federal Witness Security Program run by the U.S. Marshals Service since 1971, which relocated the DINA assassin Michael Townley under another name after his Letelier plea.

Programs (1)

  • Project Eagle Multi-million-dollar Justice Department procurement of the mid-1980s to automate its litigating divisions, which INSLAW alleged was meant to carry PROMIS for companies tied to Earl Brian.

Events (1)

  • Epstein non-prosecution agreement The September 24, 2007 agreement in which federal prosecutors in Miami dropped a drafted indictment of Jeffrey Epstein and immunized his co-conspirators in exchange for two state guilty pleas.

Concepts (3)

  • Crime Victims' Rights Act Federal statute enacted in 2004 as Title I of the Justice for All Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. 3771, whose conferral right was the basis of the Epstein victims' challenge to his non-prosecution agreement.
  • Epstein Files Body of Justice Department and FBI records on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, released in stages from February 2025 and, under a 2025 statute, as a library of nearly 3.5 million pages.
  • Epstein Files Transparency Act Statute of November 19, 2025, forced to a House vote by discharge petition, requiring the Attorney General to publish within 30 days the Justice Department's unclassified records on Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.