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From: J [jeeyacation@gmail.com] 
Sent: 3/14/2019 4:48:11 PM 
To: Martin Weinberg Darren Indyke 
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Subject: Fwd: Epstein prosecutor was rebuked for prior child sex case I Miami Herald 
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Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:30 PM 
Subject: Epstein prosecutor was rebuked for prior child sex case 1Miami Herald 
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Cc: Darren Indyke 
https://www.miamiherald.cominews/politics-government/article226765309.html 
Kathy Ruemmler 
Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor was 
previously rebuked for handling of a 
child sex case 
Julie K. Brown 
Nine months before cutting a covert plea deal with sex trafficking suspect Jeffrey 
Epstein, Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta was notified that the lead 
prosecutor in Epstein's case had concealed victim information in another underage 
sex crimes case, the Miami Herald has learned. 
The prosecutor, A. Marie Villafaria, was harshly rebuked by a federal judge in 
January 2007 for what he called her "intentional and/or serious lapse in judgment" 
when she failed to explicitly inform him that the defendant, a Texas man who 
traveled to Florida to have sex with a 14-year-old girl, had a prior history of 
predatory behavior with minors, court records show. 
Acosta, her boss at the time, not only knew about Villafaria's breach — records show 
that he subsequently defended it. Acosta assigned another prosecutor in his office to 
write a treatise for the judge in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to soften 
the stinging language in his order. 
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Senior U.S. District Court Judge William J. Zloch copied Acosta on his order, 
noting, "The court is at a total loss as to why the Office of the United States Attorney 
for the Southern District of Florida, as well as the Assistant United States Attorney 
assigned to the above-styl

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