# CHAPTER 50

Jane Doe: February 2008

s a result of the non-prosecution agreement, a fifty-three- count indictment that federal prosecutors had prepared against Jeffrey Epstein-one that claimed he'd abused dozens of underage women-never was filed.

But as far as lawyers representing Epstein's victims were con- cerned, the fact that those victims were not consulted about the non-prosecution agreement was inexcusable. The "government deliberately kept crime victims 'in the dark' so that it could enter into a plea arrangement designed to prevent the victims from raising any objections," they would argue, in documents filed on February 10, 2016. For nine months, the lawyers claimed, from the time that the NPA was signed, on September 24, 2007, Krischer's office, “doing Epstein's bidding, [had] concealed the NPA's existence from victim[s]" and continued to do so until the

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