"Well, good afternoon, Alex. Just in the last hour, our colleague Tom Winter broke the news that the DOJ on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the case of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein to deny a request from NBC News to unseal the names of two associates who received large payments from Epstein in 2018, Alcindor began, adding: Court documents show the Justice Department cited privacy concerns expressed by the two individuals as the reason for not making their names public."
"Now, the first associate received a payment of $100,000 from Epstein. The second associate received a payment of $250,000. No,w both of those payments happened in 2018, just days after the Miami Herald began publishing a series of stories where victims criticized a plea deal Epstein received in Florida in 2008. Now as part of that plea agreement, Epstein secured a statement from federal prosecutors in Florida that the two people would not be prosecuted."
"Now the payments became public after Epstein was indicted and arrested in New York in 2019. And just last month, NBC News sent a letter asking a federal judge to unseal the redacted names because Epstein's dead, the criminal proceedings have ended, and the DOJ said in a memo in July that there would be no additional charges filed against uncharged third parties. The judge has now given NBC News until September 12th to respond to the DOJ's request that the names remain secret."
The Department of Justice requested that a federal judge deny a petition to unseal the identities of two associates who received large payments from Jeffrey Epstein in 2018. Court documents state the DOJ cited privacy concerns raised by the two individuals. One associate received $100,000 and the other $250,000 shortly after Miami Herald stories criticized Epstein's 2008 Florida plea deal. Epstein had obtained a statement from Florida prosecutors that the two would not be prosecuted. Payments surfaced after Epstein's 2019 indictment, and a judge gave NBC News until September 12 to respond to the DOJ's request.
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