Prosecutors in Florida heard graphic testimony from Jeffrey Epstein’s teenage victims two years before cutting him a plea deal.
July 1, 2024, published at 7:30 PM ET
Court transcripts showed that prosecutors in Florida heard graphic testimony Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulting teenage girls two years before cutting him a plea deal, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The shocking transcripts were released on Monday, July 1, as part of the 2006 grand jury investigation.
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About 150 pages of court transcripts were released Monday.
In February, Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis signed a bill allowing the release of the approximately 150 pages on Monday or anytime thereafter Luis Delgado ordered.
While the judge scheduled a hearing next week, which was expected to discuss how and when to make the transcripts public, he made a shocking decision Monday to release them.
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The transcripts were released as part of a 2006 grand jury investigation.
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With the unexpected release of the transcript, it was revealed that the grand jury heard graphic testimony from Epstein’s teenage victims, some as young as 14 years old.
The teenage girls testified in detail about Epstein’s sexual abuse at his Palm Beach mansion and told investigators they were paid to find more girls for the late financier.
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Transcripts showed that the grand jury heard graphic testimony from teenage girls describing how Epstein had sexually abused them.
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“The details in the record will be outrageous to decent people,” Judge Delgado wrote in his order releasing the transcripts. “The Grand Jury testimony covers activities ranging from completely unacceptable to rape – all of the conduct in question is sexually deviant, disgusting and criminal.”
Two years after the grand jury heard victims’ testimony, South Florida prosecutors struck a plea deal in 2008 with Epstein, who has long been criticized for being lenient — and raised questions about the late financier’s ties with the rich and powerful.
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The 2008 plea deal allowed Epstein to avoid more serious federal charges in exchange for pleading guilty to state charges of soliciting a person under 18 for prostitution and solicitation to engage in prostitution. Epstein was sentenced to a year and a half behind bars, followed by a year of house arrest and had to register as a sex offender.
As RadarOnline.com reported, a New York judge recently dismissed our lawsuit, forcing the FBI to release documents related to the sex trafficking investigation into Epstein and his high-profile connections.
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Two years after the teenage victims testified, Epstein struck a plea deal with South Florida prosecutors in 2008.
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U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe ruled on Tuesday, June 25, that the public disclosure of the files could potentially hinder a new trial against Epstein’s longtime associate and ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell.
The ruling ended a seven-year saga that began when RadarOnline.com filed a freedom of information lawsuit against the FBI in 2017; however, lawyer Dan Novack has pledged to “continue fighting for transparency and accountability.”
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“The FBI covered its tracks by using a hypothetical retrial of Ghislaine Maxwell as justification for not releasing her Epstein files,” Novack said of the dismissal.
Novack said the FBI insisted that “these are simply the kinds of documents that could cause harm if released, without facing the reality of the fact that the target of the investigation has accessed millions of records and has been convicted in a of the most serious cases.” profile tests in American history.”