Seeking to move ahead with a victims' compensation fund, lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein's estate have asked a judge to ignore concerns of the attorney general of the Virgin Islands and allow the creation of a fund that's been stymied since last November.
The co-executors of the Epstein estate _ Richard D. Kahn and Darren K. Indyke _ filed their response before the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands last Friday at the start of the Easter weekend, but it became public on Monday. The pair, chosen by Epstein to settle his estate shortly before his reported jail-cell suicide last Aug. 10, angrily fought back against an April 7 filing by Attorney General Denise George that seeks to exert oversight.
"The attorney general has no right to inject herself into the program, dictating its policies, procedures and administration," lawyers for the co-executors wrote. "To allow her to do so would rob the program of its independence, one of its most critical attributes."
