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(NewsNation) — A Palm Beach County justice Monday released grand assemblage records, which included hundreds of documents and audio recordings, from the 2006 probe against Jeffrey Epstein.
The records have remained nether seal for 16 years. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed an bid to merchandise the files by July 1, reported the Palm Beach Post, which sued for their merchandise successful 2019.
Epstein, a millionaire known for associating with high-profile personalities, became the taxable of a constabulary probe successful Palm Beach, Florida, successful 2005 aft helium was accused of paying a 14-year-old miss for sex.
Once helium was arrested, aggregate underage girls, galore of them precocious schoolhouse students, came guardant telling constabulary that Epstein hired them to springiness intersexual massages.
While Palm Beach constabulary charged Epstein with aggregate counts of unlawful enactment with a insignificant successful 2006, the authorities lawyer astatine the time, Barry Krischer, made the antithetic determination of sending the lawsuit to a expansive jury.
The expansive assemblage heard from lone 1 accuser and indicted Epstein with 1 number of solicitation of prostitution. Accusations from different victims, galore of whom were minors, are not reflected successful the indictment.
Krischer's bureau ne'er spoke with immoderate of the victims, according to authorities lawyer documents, and once Epstein's high-profile defence attorneys became involved, his bureau discontinue communicating regularly with police, reported the Palm Beach Post.
Questions person swirled for astir 2 decades astir wherefore Epstein was charged with comparatively insignificant offenses and wherefore the lawsuit went to a expansive jury.
Among the records released Monday was the grounds of an underage miss who described being allegedly assaulted by Epstein.
He was re-arrested successful 2019 connected enactment trafficking charges successful New York but was recovered dormant successful his compartment by termination a period aft his arrest.
NewsNation's Urja Sinha and Devan Markham contributed to this story.
