Epstein Prosecutors Prepared Sex Trafficking Indictment in 2007

Federal prosecutors prepared an indictment of Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 that would have charged him with sex trafficking, and grand jurors heard months of testimony on the case, records from the Justice Department show.

Epstein, three of his employees and two of his companies would have been charged in a draft indictment that accused him of abusing girls as young as 14. A Federal Bureau of Investigation agent also testified to a grand jury in May 2007 about how Epstein groomed girls for sexualized massages, according to the records. The documents don’t indicate whether the grand jury was ever asked ...