EXCLUSIVE: Florida feds knew of New York victim in Epstein indictment 11 years earlier.
February 20, 2020, 11:07 AMMaria Farmer began working for him shortly after the two met in 1995. She said he assaulted her at his home in Ohio and that she reported him to authorities afterward.
It wasn't until nearly 11 years later, when federal prosecutors in New York quietly opened a new investigation into Epstein, that the woman was again contacted by authorities seeking details of her alleged years-long sexual abuse by the multi-millionaire financier. Identified in last year’s indictment as “Minor-Victim 1,” she is the only alleged victim from New York whose allegations are specifically detailed in the charges, a strong indicator of her importance to the investigation.
“[Her] experience with Epstein fit within what is now known to have been a common pattern for the abuser," the complaint says."He would find vulnerable young girls who needed money and slowly test their boundaries—first asking them to remove their own clothes and massage him and then, over time, he would escalate his conduct, touching them in ways that would become more invasive, violent, and painful.
The FBI agents’ first visit with the woman in New York – in the early Spring of 2008 – came at a particularly sensitive time in the federal investigation, which was being overseen by R. Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta testifies during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on the Labor Budget for Fiscal Year 2020, on Capitol Hill, April 3, 2019.Under the terms of the agreement, Epstein was required to"use his best efforts to enter his guilty plea and be sentenced not later than October 26, 2007.
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