Julie K. Brown

So I thought, well, the only way I'm going to really...

understand this as an investigative reporter, instead of reading what everybody else has written about him, I wanted to look at all the raw material that they had from the very beginning and evaluate it from that perspective rather than just writing what other people had written or taken everything that had been written as being a complete record of why he got away with it or how

The crimes were committed.

So it essentially was sort of a fact finding mission.

You know, to me, it seemed like a cold case.

Nobody was really looking at it at this period of time, even though there now was a woman that was accusing him and.

The soon to be president of sexual assault.

It was pretty graphic lawsuit that she had filed about what had happened.

So I thought, I'm just going to start at the beginning and find out who this guy is and how he got away with this crimes.

As I was working on this, coincidentally, he nominated Alex Acosta as his labor secretary.

And by that time, of course, I knew that Alex Acosta was the U.S.

attorney in Miami who

approved of his so-called sweetheart deal.

And I thought at the time that he was maybe not even going to get confirmed because this was a pretty serious blight on his record.

And so I thought it was possible, but it just seemed like they kind of smoothed over it.

He sort of used the same lines he had always used, like, you know, we didn't know there were so many victims or

A lot of the victims didn't want to cooperate.

I mean, there was this whole line that he had over the years about why he decided to give him this deal.

And so once again, I thought, well, wait a minute.

By that time, I had gotten the police report and the state attorney files.