In 2007-08 Epstein faced a serious portfolio of charges on statutory rape and sex trafficking, although Florida Southern Attorney General Alexander Acosta agreed to a Federal Non-Prosecution Agreement, thereby reducing all charges to a single instance of solicitation of a girl under 18.[32] This simultaneously shut down an FBI investigation into more victims and conspiring and associated powerful perpetrators of sex crimes.[33] Hoffenberg references how Acosta stated publicly, “This is an intelligence criminal case [. . .] not a standalone criminal case.”[3]