A witness reportedly saw FBI agents knock down 66-year-old Epstein's Manhattan townhouse door at roughly 5:30 p.m. local time on Saturday evening.
that Epstein sex-trafficked underage girls and President Donald Trump's Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, who served as a federal prosecutor in Miami at the time, illegally kept details of Epstein's plea from his victims.
According to court documents, Epstein had bought more than 30 underage girls to his Palm Beach mansion for sexual acts between 1999 and 2006. Some of the victims were also taken to Epstein's New York City home, New Mexico ranch and private Caribbean island. FBI investigators found that Epstein used his victims to recruit other victims of a similar age in an operation that has been compared to the structure of a pyramid scheme. He also reportedly paid associates to help find victims and coordinate his crimes.
In 2008, the federal investigation into Epstein ended after he struck a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to two state prostitution charges. Rather than receive life in prison, Epstein's sentence was watered down to 13-months in Palm Beach County jail, financial settlements to multiple victims and a requirement he register as a sex offender. Acosta reportedly oversaw the agreement and has since defended the plea deal as appropriate under the circumstances.
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