Brian Laird on WNYC, Jeffrey Epstein has been dead for nearly seven years.

He died in federal custody in August 2019 before he could be tried.

Since then, the federal government has largely closed the

door on his victims. The FBI has argued some cases are too old to pursue, and the Trump

administration has shown no appetite for pursuing them further themselves. So where did the women

he abused turn now? One answer, being tested in Albany right now,

the state of New York. Yesterday, four women who say they were sexually abused by Epstein

testified before the state senate's codes committee, some of them speaking publicly for the first

time, in support of a package of bills that would open new legal pathways

against Epstein's estate and the people who helped him. Here's one of those women who went

public, Laura Bloom-Magee. Our justice system allowed a web that protected the powerful,

the wealthy, and the well-connected.

People and institutions that profited from and covered up a pedophiles network.

Too many survivors carry their trauma in silence.

One in four women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime.

And for many, it takes years, sometimes decades,

to come forward. So the Trafficking, Survivor, Recovery, and Accountability Act, as it's called,

sponsored by Brooklyn State Senator Zellner Myrie, who chairs that committee, would allow victims to seek punitive damages

from Epstein's estate, and among other things, open a one-year window for victims to file

claims that are already beyond the statute of limitations. From a hearing in the state senate

yesterday, this is Glendez Espinal testifying about Epstein's abuse.

The Epstein estate has refused to help me because they are arguing that the statute of limitations

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