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Paperwork Over Predators: How New York Tried to Soften Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes
New York prosecutors once advanced an argument that bordered on the surreal: that Jeffrey Epstein’s status as a sex offender should be downgraded because his conduct, they claimed, did not fit the most severe classification under New York law. Rather than centering the sheer scale of his abuse, the number of victims, or the pattern of predatory behavior that spanned years and continents, prosecutors leaned on narrow technical distinctions about charges, plea structures, and statutory thresholds. The argument treated Epstein not as a serial sexual predator with an industrialized abuse…
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