Unfiled 2007 Epstein Indictment Reveals Extensive Exploitation of Teen Victims

A 2007 draft federal indictment against Jeffrey Epstein laid out charges of sex trafficking and exploitation of more than a dozen teenage girls over six years, detailing a pattern of luring victims to his Palm Beach home, paying them, and even having others recruit more girls, with a coercive threat to a 16-year-old who might report the crimes; the document was never filed because Epstein accepted a state plea deal in 2008, and its release by the Justice Department now shows how extensively investigators believed he operated.