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Subject: RE: RE: separate research project¶
I am happy to help out with this project. Do you have any availability tomorrow to talk in person for ~15 minutes about this assignment? That way I can do some initial research and be able to ask more focused questions. I am available any time.¶
Best,¶
Subject: RE: separate research project¶
On the Epstein investigation—separate from the police officer case you’ve been researching for—we have a research question that I think is fairly interesting, and can be a little more long term, or in the background of other projects / events that come up. In the sex trafficking statute, 18 U.S.C. 1591, there was an amendment in 2015 to more expressly include defendants who participate in the demand side of sex trafficking—that is, people who pay for sex acts with individuals who are being sex trafficked (Johns, basically). However, we think, and will want to be able to argue and show, that even before the 2015 amendment courts found that Section 1591 applied to both suppliers and consumers of commercial sex acts.¶
It would be helpful for us to get as many cases addressing that issue as possible, especially in the Second Circuit but honestly nationwide, for cases charged during the time period from when the statute was passed initially in 2000 through when it was amended. That sound doable? And maybe check in on it later this week, like Thursday or Friday, to touch base on what you’re finding? And as always, happy to talk about it if that’s useful too.¶
thanks,¶
p. s. Copying my colleague who is also working on the case.¶
Assistant U.S. Attorney¶
Southern District of New York¶
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