Epstein Crime Victims Act

This section would allow the Act to be cited as the "Epstein Crime Victims Act."

This section would amend section 3771 of title 18, United States Code, the law listing the rights of crime victims. It would expand the types of agreements the government must notify a victim about in a timely manner under subsection (a)(9): the current requirement to notify a victim of a plea bargain or a deferred prosecution agreement would also cover a nonprosecution agreement. It would also change subsection (d)(6), which currently begins by stating that nothing in the chapter does something, so that this rule would instead apply except as provided in a new paragraph (7), carving out an exception for the new right described below. It would add that new paragraph (7) to subsection (d): if the government enters a plea bargain or a deferred prosecution agreement and fails to notify the victim of it in a timely manner as subsection (a)(9) requires, the victim would be allowed to bring an action against the government in an appropriate United States district court to enforce any remaining rights that apply to the victim under subsection (a). This new right to sue is tied specifically to a failure to notify about a plea bargain or a deferred prosecution agreement; the text does not extend this particular right to sue to a failure to notify about a nonprosecution agreement.