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""I kept looking at the timer because I didn't want to have this mental image of what he was doing.""

""He kept trying to put his fingers inside me and told me to pinch his nipples. He was mostly saying 'just do that, harder, harder' and do this.'""

""How come people who don't have money get sent to jail --- and can't even make bail --- and they have to do their time and sit there and think about what they did wrong? He had no repercussions and doesn't even believe he did anything wrong.""

""I was surprised at how quickly it snowballed. I thought at some point there would be a last interview, but the next victim would supply me with three or four more names and the next one had three or four names and it just kept getting bigger and bigger.""

""I'm not an investigator. My only job was to negotiate and try the case when it comes to trial.""

""Our investigation had discovered at least one of her websites and I am enclosing some examples ... the site goes on to detail, including photos, her apparent fascination with marijuana.""

""His attorney showed us a MySpace page where one of the girls was holding a beer in her hand, and they said, 'oh look, she is underage drinking,'" Recarey recalled. "Well, tell me what teenager doesn't? Does that mean she isn't a victim because she drank a beer? Basically, what you're telling me is the only victim of a sexual battery could be a nun.""

""Early on, it became clear that things had changed. from Krischer saying, 'we'll just put this guy away for life,' to 'these are all the reasons why we aren't going to prosecute this,'""

""It became apparent to me that some of our evidence was being leaked to Epstein's lawyers, who began to question everything that we had in our probable cause affidavit,""