The U.S. Department of Justice announced Feb. 6 that it has opened an investigation into a 2007 plea deal that allowed New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein to serve only 13 months in a Florida jail while being accused of molesting more than 100 underage girls, some of them just 14 years old.
In a letter to Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd said an internal investigation is underway to examine whether DOJ attorneys committed “professional misconduct.”
