How journalist Julie K. Brown’s dogged reporting helped lead to Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest:
in 2008, when Epstein faced accusations involving girls in South Florida.
Brown also identified some 80 alleged victims in her reporting. She worked on the award-winning series with Emily Michot, a visual journalist at the Herald. This past Saturday, Epstein was arrested, charged with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy. He is accused of luring dozens of underage girls, some as young as 14, to his Manhattan townhouse as well as to a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, the Times. He also asked some of the girls to recruit other underage girls, according to the indictment. Investigators seized hundreds of nude photos of young women and girls from his Manhattan home.
For years since the plea deal, women have accused him of preying on them when they were underage, but he remained protected by the deal. The U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Geoffrey S. Berman, said his office was not bound by the 2008 agreement, according to the Times. “That agreement, by its terms, only binds the Southern District of Florida,” he said.In the wake of the arrest, Brown’s series of articles, collected under the title
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