Julie K. Brown

So in that respect, he didn't have to, for example, he didn't have to register as a sex offender in New Mexico.

Right.

Right.

Well, I can't take credit for that aspect of it because there were two lawyers, very shrewd lawyers, Brad Edwards and Paul Castle, who brought a lawsuit.

It was 10 years old by the time I did this.

They had brought it right when the deal happened back in 2008 and they were still litigating it.

And they were the ones that were fighting, trying to undo the deal because it had essentially broken, they broke the law.

Because under the Crime Victims Rights Act, you have to let the victims know when you're doing something like this.

They deserve the credit for that aspect of the case, which was very critical because it was critical to my reporting because that lawsuit has so much litigation attached to it.

I literally would spend hours and hours reading all the evidence that they had collected against Epstein.

There were depositions.

There was so much material in that lawsuit that really helped me build upon, including the emails that went back and forth between Epstein's lawyers and the federal prosecutors, their buddy, buddy.

You could see how they were working together to make this deal happen.

And, you know, it was a good deal of me getting that information was a result of those two lawyers working that case.

He had given a press conference before he was arrested where he completely defended everything that he did.

And I remember I was on a panel on CNN when he did it, when they wanted me to analyze it.

And one of the arguments he said was, well, you have to remember, way back then,

This kind of crime wasn't thought about in the same way it is now.

On what planet was it ever okay for a man to have sex with a, you know, 13-year-old girl?

That was bad all the time.