To the Editor:

“A Symbol of Plutocratic Corruption,” by Michelle Goldberg (column, July 9):

My home is only a few blocks away from Jeffrey Epstein’s huge mansion on East 71st Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues, and as I walked by there on Tuesday morning, the television camera crews were already setting up to shoot Mr. Epstein’s home from every angle.

For ages, rich and powerful men like Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein have abused and/or preyed on women, but Jeffrey Epstein is a sexual predator of the worst kind. Mr. Epstein preys on underage girls.

Mr. Epstein, with the aid of a plea agreement given him by Alexander Acosta, then a federal prosecutor and now President Trump’s labor secretary, avoided a possible life sentence when brought up on 53 federal counts of assembling a large, cultlike network of underage girls and coercing them to perform multiple sex acts behind the walls of his Florida estate .

This non-prosecution agreement allowed Mr. Epstein to keep his perverted actions secret. The Southern District of New York has now brought an indictment, and Mr. Epstein could face spending the rest of his life in federal prison.