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  "full_text": "Case 1:19-cr-00490-RMB Document 53 Filed 09/03/19 Page 53 of 86\nJ8RPEPS2\n\n1 applicable law in this circuit, the Court has no alternative but to grant that motion.\n2\n3 I think the current law is outdated, as the Court suggested in some of its remarks. I think there will come a\n4 time when either an Appellate court or the Congress will make clear that, just as it's possible to continue civil cases\n5 against someone after they have deceased, it is possible, at least for purposes of things like restitution, to continue\n6 criminal cases, but we are not there now. And, fortunately, in this case, there are other ways and perhaps even more efficient\n7 ways to vindicate the interests of the victims here.\n8\n9 We greatly appreciate the remarks of the representative of the Department of Justice today, and we, too,\n10 on behalf of the victims, are not going to stop when we walk out of this courtroom. We are going to continue to seek\n11 vindication against Mr. Epstein's estate and, in some senses, perhaps even more important, against the people who worked with\n12 him and enabled him.\n13\n14 As you have already heard, and will hear more, Mr. Epstein did not act alone. He could not have done what he\n15 did, on the scope and the scale of what he did, for as many years as he did it without the activities and support and the\n16 co-conspirator activity of a number of other key individuals, and those individuals also need to bear their share of\n17 responsibility, and those people need to have a reckoning as\n18\n19 SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C.\n20 (212) 805-0300\n21 DOJ-OGR-00000691",
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      "content": "1 applicable law in this circuit, the Court has no alternative but to grant that motion.\n\nI think the current law is outdated, as the Court suggested in some of its remarks. I think there will come a time when either an Appellate court or the Congress will make clear that, just as it's possible to continue civil cases against someone after they have deceased, it is possible, at least for purposes of things like restitution, to continue criminal cases, but we are not there now. And, fortunately, in this case, there are other ways and perhaps even more efficient ways to vindicate the interests of the victims here.\n\nWe greatly appreciate the remarks of the representative of the Department of Justice today, and we, too, on behalf of the victims, are not going to stop when we walk out of this courtroom. We are going to continue to seek vindication against Mr. Epstein's estate and, in some senses, perhaps even more important, against the people who worked with him and enabled him.\n\nAs you have already heard, and will hear more, Mr. Epstein did not act alone. He could not have done what he did, on the scope and the scale of what he did, for as many years as he did it without the activities and support and the co-conspirator activity of a number of other key individuals, and those individuals also need to bear their share of responsibility, and those people need to have a reckoning as",
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