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(5) knowingly, in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce, recruiting, enticing, and obtaining by any means a person, knowing that the person had not attained the age of 18 years and would be caused to engage in a commercial sex act as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1591(c)(1); in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1591(a)(1) and 2; and¶
IT APPEARING that Epstein has accepted responsibility for his behavior by his signature on this Agreement; and¶
IT APPEARING, after an investigation of the offenses and Epstein’s background, that the interest of the United States pursuant to the Petite policy will be served by the following procedure;¶
THEREFORE, on the authority of R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, prosecution in this District for these offenses shall be deferred in favor of prosecution by the State of Florida, provided that Epstein abides by the following conditions and the requirements of this Agreement set forth below.¶
If the United States Attorney should determine based on reliable evidence that Epstein has violated any of the conditions of this Agreement, then the United States Attorney may at any time initiate prosecution against Epstein for any offense listed above for the duration of this Agreement. In this case, the United States Attorney will furnish Epstein with notice specifying the condition(s) of the Agreement that he has violated.¶
After timely fulfilling all the terms and conditions of the Agreement, no prosecution for the offenses set out on pages 1 and 2 of this Agreement, nor any other offenses that have been the subject of the joint investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Attorney’s Office, nor any offenses that were being investigated by the federal Grand Jury will be instituted in this District, and the charges against Epstein if any, will be dismissed.¶
Terms of the Agreement:¶
- Epstein and the State Attorney’s Office shall make a joint, binding recommendation that the Court impose a thirty (30) month sentence to be divided as follows:
(a) Epstein shall begin by serving at least eighteen (18) months in county jail for all charges, without any opportunity for withholding adjudication or sentencing, and without probation or community control in lieu of imprisonment; and¶
(b) following the term of imprisonment, Epstein shall serve twelve (12) months of community control.¶
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