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“I really believe these programs are as much about validation as compensation. … It is a highly individualized process and not one where you type the number into a computer and everyone gets the same award.”
"My hope is that the [Epstein] program provided his victims a meaningful measure of justice and a step on the path toward healing," Feldman said.
"The meetings are at the heart of the program," Feldman said. "You can only capture so much in a paper filing when you're talking about harm like this."
“[T]he process was very intense and raw and physically exhausting…psychologically exhausting for the victims. But it also gave them a sense of [being] empowered in having come forward and reclaiming their narrative in some way.”
“Every claimant had an opportunity to be heard in a safe space, to share the intimate, personal, often harrowing accounts of what they endured and how it has affected them.”
"Many of [the victims] have been very hesitant to come forward at all, and are only doing so now because the program was designed and structured the way it is," Feldman said. "It's confidential, not adversarial."'
“The program provides victims of Jeffrey Epstein the opportunity to be heard outside the glare of the public courtroom proceedings and to receive acknowledgment by an independent third party as to the legitimacy of their experience and the long-term suffering it has wrought.”
“I am proud of what we were able to accomplish with this program but also recognize that no amount of money will erase the year of pain these victims have endured because of Jeffrey Epstein.”