Julie K Brown Biography

Julie K Brown is an American investigative journalist with the Miami Herald best known for pursuing the sex-ring story surrounding financier Jeffrey Epstein. Brown is well known for winning a 2018 George Polk Award in the category of Justice Reporting and also in the same year, she won Sidney Award.

Julie K Brown Age

Information about her real date of birth has not been updated, sources have it that she was born (born 1961/62).

Julie K BrownPersonal Life

Brown was raised near Philadelphia by a single parent. She then left home at the age of 16 and worked in menial jobs before she could afford to attend college.

Julie K BrownEducation

She graduated magna cum laude from Temple University in 1987 with a degree in journalism.

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Julie K Brown Career

Brown is currently an American investigative journalist with the Miami Herald best known for pursuing the sex-ring story surrounding financier Jeffrey Epstein. Brown worked for the Philadelphia Daily News before joining the Miami Herald, around 2000

Brown has been credited with the re-opening of the Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse case. After Epstein was arrested and charged in July 2019, she tweeted in response: “The Real Heroes Here were the courageous victims that faced their fears and told their stories”. Brown’s articles, collected under the title Perversion of Justice, resurfaced on social media. “This is what happens when a reporter refuses to give up on a story,” The Columbia Journalism Review wrote on Twitter following Epstein’s arrest. Geoffrey Berman, a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, also commented at a news conference that his team had been “assisted by some excellent investigative journalism

Julie K Brown Awards

She won a 2018 George Polk Award in the category of Justice Reporting.

She won a December 2018 Sidney Award.

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Julie K Brown News

Published: July 15, 2019

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Julie K Brown was exasperated watching the televised 2017 Senate hearings on Alexander Acosta’s nomination to be secretary of labor. In a recent interview, she told The Washington Post the senators did not ask the nominee enough about the limp prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein 10 years earlier when Acosta was U.S. attorney for South Florida.  Epstein, a well-connected multi-millionaire, was suspected by federal and local law enforcement of coercing underage girls to perform sex acts at his Palm Beach mansion. But Epstein pleaded guilty only to state charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor and served just 13 months in the Palm Beach County jail with generous release privileges.

Brown, an investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, went to her editor and proposed digging into the Epstein case. The editor said OK. Brown dug. She confirmed that Acosta had struck a secret plea deal with Epstein’s attorneys. Epstein pleaded guilty to the state charges, and the U.S. attorney’s office dropped the more serious federal charges. The accusers were not informed of the agreement, a violation of federal law. Brown pored through thousands of documents, including police reports and court cases filed on behalf of women who claimed to have been sexually abused by Epstein when they were girls.

Brown’s report in the Miami Herald, published in November, identified about 80 accusers, who were by then their late 20s and early 30s. She located about 60 of them in the U.S. and abroad. Eight were willing to talk about the case — four of them on the record. Brown and visual journalist Emily Michot interviewed the four for an emotional video documentary. Brown also reached out to former and current FBI agents, local police, federal and state prosecutors, judges, victims’ attorneys, and defense attorneys. The result of Brown’s digging was “Perversion of Justice,” a meticulously reported series about the Epstein case published by the Herald on November 2018.

On July 10, Epstein was charged in Manhattan federal court with sex trafficking of minors.  Prosecutors alleged that he controlled a “vast network of underage age victims” as young as 14. Law enforcement officers raided his imposing midtown mansion and found “a trove” of photos of nude and partially nude females believed to be underage. Epstein, 66, pleaded not guilty.  If convicted, he could be sentenced to prison for up to 45 years. Federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman told reporters that his team had been “assisted by some excellent investigative journalism.” It is assumed he was referring to Brown’s reporting in the Miami Herald.

Apparently, high-profile Democrats also reviewed her series.  They demanded that Acosta resign or be fired as labor secretary for his role in the 2008 plea deal. Acosta held a news conference and insisted he got the best deal he could at the time. Going to trial would have been “a roll of the dice,” he said. The next day, July 12, he resigned. Brown, 57, has been at the Miami Herald for about 20 years. She was raised by a single mother near Philadelphia. She worked low-level jobs to earn money for college and graduated from Temple University in 1987 with a journalism degree. She went on to be an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Daily News, a brash tabloid that still exists. Earlier, in 1975-76, I was managing editor of that newspaper. I wish the two of us had been there at the same time. I’m a big believer in “excellent investigative journalism.” Paul Janensch, a seasonal resident of Vero Beach, was a newspaper editor and taught journalism at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.  Email: .