Crime Epstein had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show.
Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls and dinners with Matthew Menchel — the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office chief criminal prosecutor who spearheaded Epstein’s sweetheart deal in 2007, newly released documents show.
Lawmakers also referred to a photograph of Menchel on a ski trip with Epstein sometime in the 2000s, but didn’t produce the photo.
“I had no business relationship with Mr. Epstein at any point, not before, during or after my tenure at the US Attorney’s Office.”
He added that Epstein had tried to get his firm to handle some of the civil litigation associated with his case, but “we declined.”.
He did not deny that he had met with Epstein after he left the US Attorney’s Office.
Following publication of the series, federal prosecutors in New York re-examined the case, and Epstein was arrested again in 2019 on more serious sex trafficking charges. »