Deadline Moved Back In Epstein Victims' Rights Case
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MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — A story that has received national attention is starting a new chapter in South Florida.
A federal judge has agreed to push back a key deadline in a Florida victims' rights case involving a wealthy financier accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra granted an extension Thursday in the case involving victims of 66-year-old Jeffrey Epstein.
Marra ruled last month that former Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta's prosecutors violated the victims' rights by secretly reaching a 2008 nonprosecution agreement with Epstein. Under the agreement, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges, spent 13 months in jail, paid settlements to victims and became a registered sex offender.
Marra also had ordered the U.S. Justice Department and the victims' attorneys to suggest what to do about the violations by Friday. A new deadline hasn't been set.
Acosta, now President Donald Trump's labor secretary, says the deal was appropriate.
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