The Justice Department has opened an investigation into federal prosecutors’ handling of a plea deal in which a wealthy, politically connected Palm Beach financier avoided potentially severe penalties for sexually abusing teenage girls in favor of a relatively light state conviction.

The department’s Office of Professional Responsibility wrote  U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, on Wednesday to say it would examine whether professional misconduct occurred in the highly publicized case of Jeffrey Epstein. The letter cited a series of recent articles by the Miami Herald that focused new attention on making of the deal.

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