This episode mentions sexual assault and may not be appropriate for all listeners.

It was an emotional rollercoaster.

We found out that my rights had been violated.

We found out that the Secret Plea agreement had been signed, you know, sealed and delivered right underneath her.

My nose.

Courtney Wilde had been waiting for months to get an update from the feds on their investigation into Epstein.

Her lawyer, Brad Edwards, had to file a special motion to get a hearing in front of a federal judge.

If you were there that day, you'd have seen the judge, the federal prosecutors, and Epstein's lawyers.

The opposing lawyers all knew what was going on, but Edwards and Courtney were in the dark.

So Judge Mara says to me, hey, look, you filed this as an emergency motion because you were trying to stop something that you thought was about to happen.

You basically had this gut feeling that the government is going to secretly work out a deal without telling your clients what you just learned is it already happened.

So what do you want me to do about it?

It was a fair question.

Edwards hadn't even seen the infamous document yet, the non-prossecution agreement that would protect Epstein and his potential co-conspirators from further prosecution.

But Edwards saw an opportunity to undo what he believed was an injustice.

He became convinced that the feds had violated a law recently signed by President George W. Bush, called the Crime Victims Rights Act, or CVRA.

One of the things that required was for prosecutors to confer with victims before they sign any kind of plea deal or NPA.

But those prosecutors had not consulted Courtney. So she sued.

Yet, like before we sued Jeffrey or anything like that, we sued the government first.

All I knew when we filed the papers is that I was so confused, I didn't understand what was happening.

In the last episode, you heard about what was going on behind the scenes.

How U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta and Federal Prosecutor Marieville LaFonia were in close contact with Epstein's defense team.

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