the penalties that the prosecution that the united states attorney's office wanted to hand mr epstein . were in fact disallowed by the department of justice in washington now it has been it has recently resurfaced and the f.b.i. have released files eight i believe in total containing hundreds of documents many of them of course redacted most of them redacted. and many of them containing clippings. stating how this case developed well i think you know in order to have a pictorial view an image of this case statutory rape as you know carries a sentence a minimum sentence of six to seven years in the state of florida there was a law that was passed even though it was inactive in two thousand and five that is the year mr epstein is arrested for the crime the sexual crimes with minors. and it's called jessica's law under this law the penalty for rape with a minor is ten years mr epstein only served thirteen months in a palm beach county jail. and then eighteen months of house arrest while he was in the palm beach county jail he was on a work release program which means that he left his pri

mr epstein such a lenient deal given the number of crimes that he committed against underage girls in palm beach and elsewhere and at that time back in two thousand and eleven. mr acosta who was at the time the dean of the florida. law school university law school of florida university in miami florida stated that he was quote assaulted by mr epstein. defense team and as you know mr epstein hired a barrage of superstar attorneys including alan dershowitz roy bloch kenneth starr gerald lefcourt and many others several others and the team of attorneys negotiated his plea deal here in washington d.c. they negotiated at the time we're talking two thousand and seven. with the department of justice and so according to mr acosta our labor secretary acosta. the penalties that the prosecution that the united states attorney's office wanted to hand mr epstein . were in fact disallowed by the department of justice in washington now it has been it has recently resurfaced and the f.b.i. have released files eight i believe in total containing hundreds of documents many of them of course redacted mo

mr. henry epstein still found against me, and found the driver did nothing wrong. he was not going to let me make a statement until i had to specifically request it and during that statement, even after agreeing not to interrupt me, he did interrupt me during the statement and was speaking over me multiple times. i have to recorded an would love to show this to mod staff, to talk about the incident in more detail. lastly, there was a union representative there, both the driver and the union representative were much nicer to me than the neutral hearing officer. and i've been askingta if ther is a way to have a disability representative. because i think having a disability representative that is not affiliated with sfmta is an important part of disability people having a voice and help in the meetings. even with my cognitive ability, it was still difficult, so i worry about people making ada complaints that do not have the abilito speak as clearly or have cognitive of mental health disabilities, because that was very, very difficult for me. thank you for your time. >