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That's incorrect. Epstein's accusers tried to overturn the plea agreement but that challenge failed in court. An appeals court upheld the plea agreement back in April of this year due to a technicality. A lower court initially invalidated the plea on the basis of violating the Crime Victim Rights Act but the Appeals Court upheld the plea deal (while condemning it as a disgrace) because that law could only apply if Epstein had been charged.The terms of that deal along with her immunity was overruled last year following Epstein’s arrest. If she still had the immunity they wouldn’t have the authority to arrest or charge her. Rumors were she had been living in a non extradition country for years so she’s a idiot to come back to the states with her name buzzing from the Doc.
SDNY evidently is evidently confident they can overcome the plea agreement though. I haven't really gone through the indictment fully but I think one way of fully getting around it would be to charge activities that took place prior to the period covered by Epstein's plea.
SDNY also argued in the Epstein case that the protections of the 2008 plea agreement only applied to that Florida US Attorney's Office (meaning other US Attorney's offices like SDNY could charge Epstein and others) but that seemed like a weak argument that was by no means guaranteed to succeed.
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