Event Details
September 19, 2007
Description
Internal DOJ/USAO dispute regarding plea negotiations. Villafaña and Lourie wanted to stop negotiating due to defense bad faith; Acosta overruled them.
Participants (3)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lourie | person | 286 | View Entity |
| Acosta | person | 475 | View Entity |
| Villafaña | person | 551 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
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This document is an excerpt from a report (likely OPR) detailing internal communications on September 19, 2007, between prosecutors Villafaña, Lourie, and U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta regarding plea negotiations with Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer, Jay Lefkowitz. While Villafaña and Lourie strongly recommended ending negotiations due to what they perceived as the defense's "bad faith" tactics of re-inserting rejected provisions, Acosta instructed them to continue trying to "work it out" rather than indict immediately. The page ends mid-sentence with Villafaña expressing concern about "caving" to the defense.
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