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Extraction Summary
9
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Summary
A 2018 New York Post article reporting on a January 2011 court hearing where the Manhattan DA's office, represented by Jennifer Gaffney, requested a downgrade of Jeffrey Epstein's sex-offender status from Level 3 to Level 1. The request stunned Judge Ruth Pickholz, who noted she had never seen prosecutors make such a downward argument for such a troubling case. The document is stamped as part of a House Oversight Committee review.
People (9)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Jeffrey Epstein | Subject |
Described as 'pedophile billionaire', 'pervert', and 'financier'. Subject of sex-offender registry hearing.
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| Rebecca Rosenberg | Author |
Journalist/Author of the article
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| Larry Celona | Author |
Journalist/Author of the article
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| Susan Edelman | Author |
Journalist/Author of the article
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| Isabel Vincent | Author |
Journalist/Author of the article
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| Jennifer Gaffney | Assistant DA |
Then-deputy chief of Cyrus Vance Jr.’s sex-crimes unit. Argued to downgrade Epstein's sex-offender status.
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| Cyrus Vance Jr. | District Attorney |
Head of the DA's office; Gaffney's superior.
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| Ruth Pickholz | Judge |
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice who presided over the hearing and criticized the DA's office.
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| Florida U.S. Attorney | Prosecutor |
Handled the sprawling sex-crime investigation in Florida; Gaffney admitted not speaking to them.
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Organizations (4)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Manhattan DA's office |
Prosecutor's office criticized for siding with Epstein.
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| The Post |
Newspaper that obtained the records (New York Post).
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| Manhattan Supreme Court |
Venue of the hearing.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Timeline (1 events)
January 2011
Court hearing where Assistant DA Jennifer Gaffney requested a downgrade of Epstein's sex-offender status.
Manhattan Supreme Court
Relationships (2)
Gaffney described as 'then-deputy chief of Cyrus Vance Jr.’s sex-crimes unit'
Article states the office 'went to bat' for Epstein and requested leniency.
Key Quotes (3)
"there are no real victims here"Source
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"I have never seen the prosecutor’s office do anything like this"Source
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"I have done many [cases] much less troubling than this one where [prosecutors] would never make a downward argument like this."Source
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METRO
Manhattan DA sided with pedophile billionaire after botching investigation
By Rebecca Rosenberg, Larry Celona, Susan Edelman and Isabel Vincent
December 1, 2018 | 8:47pm | Updated
By Rebecca Rosenberg, Larry Celona, Susan Edelman and Isabel Vincent
December 1, 2018 | 8:47pm | Updated
[Photo of Jeffrey Epstein]
Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein
The Manhattan DA’s office once went to bat for billionaire pervert Jeffrey Epstein, after botching a review of his sex crimes and swallowing his lawyers’ claim that “there are no real victims here,” records obtained by the Post show.
Assistant DA Jennifer Gaffney, then-deputy chief of Cyrus Vance Jr.’s sex-crimes unit, in January 2011 asked a Manhattan judge to downgrade Epstein’s status in the New York sex-offender registry from the most-dangerous Level 3 to least-restrictive Level 1.
The judge was stunned.
“I have never seen the prosecutor’s office do anything like this,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ruth Pickholz told Gaffney. “I have done many [cases] much less troubling than this one where [prosecutors] would never make a downward argument like this.”
Pressed by the judge, Gaffney admitted that she never spoke to the Florida U.S. Attorney who handled a sprawling sex-crime investigation into the financier.
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