Yep he is trump buddy, Jeffrey Epstein Arrested For Sex Trafficking of Minors
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These fucks need to be taken to an active volcano and dropped inside that bitch....
I hope the FBI seized all video evidence...
These niggas are sadistic.... Yo did you google little saint James and zoom in on the clock? That tells you everything about Epstein.. dude deserve the death penalty
A baby’s face, mofos are legit pedos of the worst kind
man what kinda crazy lookin shit is this?!
That’s where he swear all his powerful friends to secrecy.. fuckin devils man
These some ol "Yellow King" lookin ass CACs 
They gotta kill this dude, right? Close to Prince Andrew & Saudis this just like Panama Papers in nothing will come of this, right?
Was that pizzagate bullshit to distract from this coming out?
Was that pizzagate bullshit to distract from this coming out?
Notice trump didn’t say shit yet
Is 'Epstein's madam' cooperating with FBI? Victim's lawyer says Ghislaine Maxwell - who arranged meetings with Prince Andrew, Trump, Clinton and Sergey Brin - could turn on the billionaire
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...steins-madam-operate-FBI.html#article-7227791
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...steins-madam-operate-FBI.html#article-7227791
They need to see this investigation all the way through. Everything posted is relevant and seems connected. Lawd please let Epstein have footage of everyone and everything. Sick fucks. Will Epstein’s island been raided? They need to get all the videos from there, unless those were included in what was already seized.
Not sure how jurisdiction works regarding that Island. If he's keeping video/photos of underaged girls at this home in Manhattan, I can't even imagine what he keeps on the damn private island.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/08/alexander-acosta-jeffrey-epstein-1402230
Senators who voted to confirm Trump's Labor secretary are resisting demands for his ouster, despite the explosive indictment against Epstein.
White House aides are wringing their hands over the prospect that Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta could be dethroned for his handling of previous accusations of abuse against billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
But Acosta’s backers on Capitol Hill are largely sticking with him despite the new charges of sexual trafficking against Epstein, with even some Democrats resisting calls for his resignation.
On Monday, no senator in either party that supported Acosta’s confirmation as Labor secretary called for the former U.S. Attorney’s ouster over the much-criticized 2008 plea deal he cut with Epstein to avoid a public trial over the sex abuse charges and a heavy jail sentence for the financier.
“If he made a mistake or a judgment call or something like that, does that affect the way he’s doing his job now? I’m going to basically judge him on what job he’s doing and how he’s doing it,” said Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who voted to confirm Acosta. As far as calls to resign, he said: “I’m not getting into that feeding frenzy.”
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), the chairman of the party’s campaign arm, said she would need to see an internal report from the Justice Department before she could answer whether she regrets supporting him. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said he wasn’t aware of Acosta’s involvement with Epstein and doesn’t “have any thoughts about it.”
Some Democrats began calling for Acosta’s resignation in the wake of the new indictment.
derailed over past allegations of abuse, unpaid taxes and weak support among Senate Republicans. He was largely seen as refreshingly noncontroversial after Puzder’s failure.
During his Senate confirmation, Acosta also faced questions from Democrats about the Epstein case.
Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) even sent a letter to the Justice Department requesting all documents and communications that referenced Acosta's role in the case. But it was not the central focus of his confirmation hearing, and the committee ultimately approved his nomination along party lines.
Still, Senate Republicans have continued monitoring his handling of the Epstein plea deal in the ensuing months; House Democrats have called for probes into Acosta and needled him at a hearing earlier this year over the matter. Acosta told House members he’s “been on record as condemning the terms of [Epstein’s] incarceration” and blamed Florida law for Epstein’s 18-month sentence in the non-prosecution agreement.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said she spoke to Acosta directly about the case two months ago and Acosta told her “the only way for jail time was to make the agreement.” She said she was not concerned about Acosta’s role in the case “after hearing his explanation.”
“I've looked at that. [The plea deal] was early in the application of the new protections for parties that were victims and it's my view that the state prosecutors were appropriate prosecutors to deal with that,” said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). “But we'll see. If there's more that comes out, I'll be glad to look at it.”
That no Republicans were calling for Acosta’s head and even some Democrats were hesitating on Monday will likely shore up the secretary’s position in the White House. Senate Republicans have occasionally tanked nominations they viewed as troublesome, and full-throated outrage from the Senate GOP could have imperiled Acosta’s status in the Trump administration.
Acosta isn’t in the clear yet, given the renewed scrutiny of his role. But unless there’s a new smoking gun, Acosta’s support among Republicans — and some Democrats — appears solid.
“I expect most of this information was considered at the time he was confirmed. Unless there’s new revelations or information out there that could further shake people’s thinking about it” there likely won’t be resignation calls in the Senate GOP, said Senate Republican Whip John Thune of South Dakota. “I would expect that from the Democrats.”
Senators who voted to confirm Trump's Labor secretary are resisting demands for his ouster, despite the explosive indictment against Epstein.
White House aides are wringing their hands over the prospect that Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta could be dethroned for his handling of previous accusations of abuse against billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
But Acosta’s backers on Capitol Hill are largely sticking with him despite the new charges of sexual trafficking against Epstein, with even some Democrats resisting calls for his resignation.
On Monday, no senator in either party that supported Acosta’s confirmation as Labor secretary called for the former U.S. Attorney’s ouster over the much-criticized 2008 plea deal he cut with Epstein to avoid a public trial over the sex abuse charges and a heavy jail sentence for the financier.
“If he made a mistake or a judgment call or something like that, does that affect the way he’s doing his job now? I’m going to basically judge him on what job he’s doing and how he’s doing it,” said Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who voted to confirm Acosta. As far as calls to resign, he said: “I’m not getting into that feeding frenzy.”
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), the chairman of the party’s campaign arm, said she would need to see an internal report from the Justice Department before she could answer whether she regrets supporting him. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said he wasn’t aware of Acosta’s involvement with Epstein and doesn’t “have any thoughts about it.”
Some Democrats began calling for Acosta’s resignation in the wake of the new indictment.
derailed over past allegations of abuse, unpaid taxes and weak support among Senate Republicans. He was largely seen as refreshingly noncontroversial after Puzder’s failure.
During his Senate confirmation, Acosta also faced questions from Democrats about the Epstein case.
Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) even sent a letter to the Justice Department requesting all documents and communications that referenced Acosta's role in the case. But it was not the central focus of his confirmation hearing, and the committee ultimately approved his nomination along party lines.
Still, Senate Republicans have continued monitoring his handling of the Epstein plea deal in the ensuing months; House Democrats have called for probes into Acosta and needled him at a hearing earlier this year over the matter. Acosta told House members he’s “been on record as condemning the terms of [Epstein’s] incarceration” and blamed Florida law for Epstein’s 18-month sentence in the non-prosecution agreement.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said she spoke to Acosta directly about the case two months ago and Acosta told her “the only way for jail time was to make the agreement.” She said she was not concerned about Acosta’s role in the case “after hearing his explanation.”
“I've looked at that. [The plea deal] was early in the application of the new protections for parties that were victims and it's my view that the state prosecutors were appropriate prosecutors to deal with that,” said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). “But we'll see. If there's more that comes out, I'll be glad to look at it.”
That no Republicans were calling for Acosta’s head and even some Democrats were hesitating on Monday will likely shore up the secretary’s position in the White House. Senate Republicans have occasionally tanked nominations they viewed as troublesome, and full-throated outrage from the Senate GOP could have imperiled Acosta’s status in the Trump administration.
Acosta isn’t in the clear yet, given the renewed scrutiny of his role. But unless there’s a new smoking gun, Acosta’s support among Republicans — and some Democrats — appears solid.
“I expect most of this information was considered at the time he was confirmed. Unless there’s new revelations or information out there that could further shake people’s thinking about it” there likely won’t be resignation calls in the Senate GOP, said Senate Republican Whip John Thune of South Dakota. “I would expect that from the Democrats.”
The only thing that might make sense is if she thinks Trumps inaction will hurt him. That only works if the media does their job which we know they wont.
The pee tape or a few credible victims must come forward.
just post a link to this shit. its hard to find.
https://www.neonrevolt.com/2018/04/05/epsteins-island-digs-pizzagate-pedogate-qanon-greatawakening/
Don’t know what this is..
This is too deep to be exposed. It will be buried. Epstein won't be allowed to sing and the woman associated who supposedly is set to testify won't make it to the end of next year. They are all tied up in this sick ritualistic cult. There are several sources which enable them to feed their insatiable appetites. This is the blackmail ritual that those who assume power must make.
Why Alex Acosta is "public enemy No. 2" in the Jeffrey Epstein case
After federal prosecutors accused billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking and conspiracy, another public figure is coming under scrutiny: Alex Acosta, the then-U.S. attorney who negotiated a secret plea deal for Epstein when he faced similar charges in 2008.
When the 66-year-old pleaded guilty to sex abuse in Florida 11 years ago, Acosta worked with Epstein's attorneys to strike a deal that required the former investment banker to register as a sex offender and serve 13 months in a Florida county jail. Acosta, who defended the secret deal during a budget hearing last April by claiming that "at the end of the day, Mr. Epstein went to jail," now works as President Trump's secretary of labor.
CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman called the 2008 plea deal "appalling." "You have a sex trafficking indictment with multiple victims, it goes away, and the victims are never informed about it," Klieman said, adding "Why would you do that? Well, because it was really a terrible, terrible plea deal."
Klieman said that she believes Acosta has been "greatly tainted" by that plea deal. "I think there will be a groundswell. You have to remember the change of time and change of culture. At the time, 2008, when people were victims in situations like this, they had shame. Now, because of the #MeToo movement, now they have courage. So Alex Acosta becomes public enemy No. 2 – Jeffrey Epstein being number one – but No. 2 because he did this sweetheart deal."
"It is going to be looked at, and dissected, and I think Alex Acosta needs to talk to his family, and have a big reconsideration. Because already, people are calling for his resignation."
In the day following the unsealing of the indictment, multiple prominent Democrats have called for Acosta's resignation, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer. Mr. Trump said Tuesday that he'll look "very carefully" at Acosta's handling of the case.
Acosta tweeted Tuesday that the crimes committed by Epstein were "horrific" and was pleased that New York prosecutors were moving ahead "with a case based on new evidence."
Epstein's lawyer cited the plea deal in response to the new indictment, claiming that the case was settled back in 2008 and that New York prosecutors want a do-over. Epstein has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Klieman isn't surprised by that. "The expected defense move would be to say 'we'll file a motion to dismiss, because this has all been litigated before, and he was given immunity back in 2008 by the Southern District of Miami in the federal prosecution.' When a 53-page indictment just went away, it was dismissed, he got to do 13 months on one state count, of solicitation of prostitution. So he went from being a predator to simply being a john."
That doesn't mean the argument will work, however. "The Southern District of New York simply says 'look, he had an agreement with the Southern District of Florida. That doesn't bind the Southern District of New York…'" Klieman said. "And now, they are looking for new victims, so they may have some new charges."
The new indictment alleges that Jeffrey Epstein started abusing underage girls in 2002, with alleged encounters at his New York City mansion and Palm Beach estate.
Prosecutors say that "victims were initially recruited to provide 'massages' to Epstein, which would be performed nude or partially nude." The massages allegedly "would typically include one or more sex acts."
Prosecutors say the alleged sex ring may have involved dozens of underage teenage girls, and the indictment claims Epstein knew some of the girls he allegedly preyed on were just 14 years old.
"The girls were recruited in a variety of ways, usually by employees of Epstein and sometimes by fellow victims," said FBI special agent William Sweeney. "The victims typically received hundreds of dollars in cash."
Over the weekend, federal agents forced their way into Epstein's $77 million New York City townhouse. During their search, investigators say they discovered "at least hundreds -- and perhaps thousands -- of sexually suggestive photographs." Some were allegedly "in a locked safe" containing "compact discs with hand-written labels," such as "girl pics nude."
Over the years, Epstein's established relationships included President Trump and former president Bill Clinton, who rode Epstein's private jet in the early 2000s. His spokesman said the trips were related to work with the Clinton Foundation, adding "President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York. ... He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade."
Attorney David Boies, who represents three of Epstein's alleged victims, said his clients hope "that Mr. Epstein and people who worked with him and enabled him are finally brought to justice, and this looks like an important first step in having that happen."
The White House has not responded to requests for comment. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway dodged questions about President's Trump confidence in Acosta given his role in the case, and told reporters that Trump said that he didn't know Acosta at the time. The Department of Labor has not yet responded to CBS News' requests for comment regarding Acosta's involvement in the case.
Epstein is expected to make his next court appearance Thursday for a bail hearing, and prosecutors are requesting he remain in custody until his trial. They believe his extraordinary wealth, access to private jets, homes abroad, and lack of family ties in the U.S. make him an extreme flight risk.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-case-why-alex-acosta-is-public-enemy-no-2/
July 9, 2019, 1:21 PMAfter federal prosecutors accused billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking and conspiracy, another public figure is coming under scrutiny: Alex Acosta, the then-U.S. attorney who negotiated a secret plea deal for Epstein when he faced similar charges in 2008.
When the 66-year-old pleaded guilty to sex abuse in Florida 11 years ago, Acosta worked with Epstein's attorneys to strike a deal that required the former investment banker to register as a sex offender and serve 13 months in a Florida county jail. Acosta, who defended the secret deal during a budget hearing last April by claiming that "at the end of the day, Mr. Epstein went to jail," now works as President Trump's secretary of labor.
CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman called the 2008 plea deal "appalling." "You have a sex trafficking indictment with multiple victims, it goes away, and the victims are never informed about it," Klieman said, adding "Why would you do that? Well, because it was really a terrible, terrible plea deal."
Klieman said that she believes Acosta has been "greatly tainted" by that plea deal. "I think there will be a groundswell. You have to remember the change of time and change of culture. At the time, 2008, when people were victims in situations like this, they had shame. Now, because of the #MeToo movement, now they have courage. So Alex Acosta becomes public enemy No. 2 – Jeffrey Epstein being number one – but No. 2 because he did this sweetheart deal."
"It is going to be looked at, and dissected, and I think Alex Acosta needs to talk to his family, and have a big reconsideration. Because already, people are calling for his resignation."
In the day following the unsealing of the indictment, multiple prominent Democrats have called for Acosta's resignation, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer. Mr. Trump said Tuesday that he'll look "very carefully" at Acosta's handling of the case.
Acosta tweeted Tuesday that the crimes committed by Epstein were "horrific" and was pleased that New York prosecutors were moving ahead "with a case based on new evidence."
Epstein's lawyer cited the plea deal in response to the new indictment, claiming that the case was settled back in 2008 and that New York prosecutors want a do-over. Epstein has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Klieman isn't surprised by that. "The expected defense move would be to say 'we'll file a motion to dismiss, because this has all been litigated before, and he was given immunity back in 2008 by the Southern District of Miami in the federal prosecution.' When a 53-page indictment just went away, it was dismissed, he got to do 13 months on one state count, of solicitation of prostitution. So he went from being a predator to simply being a john."
That doesn't mean the argument will work, however. "The Southern District of New York simply says 'look, he had an agreement with the Southern District of Florida. That doesn't bind the Southern District of New York…'" Klieman said. "And now, they are looking for new victims, so they may have some new charges."
The new indictment alleges that Jeffrey Epstein started abusing underage girls in 2002, with alleged encounters at his New York City mansion and Palm Beach estate.
Prosecutors say that "victims were initially recruited to provide 'massages' to Epstein, which would be performed nude or partially nude." The massages allegedly "would typically include one or more sex acts."
Prosecutors say the alleged sex ring may have involved dozens of underage teenage girls, and the indictment claims Epstein knew some of the girls he allegedly preyed on were just 14 years old.
"The girls were recruited in a variety of ways, usually by employees of Epstein and sometimes by fellow victims," said FBI special agent William Sweeney. "The victims typically received hundreds of dollars in cash."
Over the weekend, federal agents forced their way into Epstein's $77 million New York City townhouse. During their search, investigators say they discovered "at least hundreds -- and perhaps thousands -- of sexually suggestive photographs." Some were allegedly "in a locked safe" containing "compact discs with hand-written labels," such as "girl pics nude."
Over the years, Epstein's established relationships included President Trump and former president Bill Clinton, who rode Epstein's private jet in the early 2000s. His spokesman said the trips were related to work with the Clinton Foundation, adding "President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York. ... He's not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade."
Attorney David Boies, who represents three of Epstein's alleged victims, said his clients hope "that Mr. Epstein and people who worked with him and enabled him are finally brought to justice, and this looks like an important first step in having that happen."
The White House has not responded to requests for comment. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway dodged questions about President's Trump confidence in Acosta given his role in the case, and told reporters that Trump said that he didn't know Acosta at the time. The Department of Labor has not yet responded to CBS News' requests for comment regarding Acosta's involvement in the case.
Epstein is expected to make his next court appearance Thursday for a bail hearing, and prosecutors are requesting he remain in custody until his trial. They believe his extraordinary wealth, access to private jets, homes abroad, and lack of family ties in the U.S. make him an extreme flight risk.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-case-why-alex-acosta-is-public-enemy-no-2/
These some ol "Yellow King" lookin ass CACs
Quite appropriate reference.
Ghislaine Maxwell to appear in court Thursday as well...
~Util - Set Hearings, Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 1:15-cv-07433 (S.D.N.Y. Jul 9, 2019)
https://www.usatoday.com/documents/6186200-Util-Set-Hearings/
~Util - Set Hearings, Giuffre v. Maxwell, No. 1:15-cv-07433 (S.D.N.Y. Jul 9, 2019)
https://www.usatoday.com/documents/6186200-Util-Set-Hearings/
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Rachel Chandler aka Child-Handler
Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sexually abusing teenage girls, surrounded himself with influential network of defenders
July 9 at 8:44 PM
For decades, Jeffrey Epstein, the finance whiz who has been charged with sex trafficking, moved with open ease between the planet’s highest echelons of power and what prosecutors portray as a sordid world of recruiting and sexually abusing teenage girls.
He met with leaders of the nation’s top universities and research labs, traveled with presidents and princes, and managed money for leading business figures. He said the minimum investment he would handle was $1 billion.
Even as dozens of women were looking to police, prosecutors and courts to hold Epstein to account for his alleged sexual abuses, he was amassing a stunning list of contacts and, in some cases, defenders across the worlds of Hollywood moviemaking, medical research, diplomacy, finance, politics and law.
From humble beginnings in Brooklyn’s Coney Island as the son of a parks worker, Epstein, a college dropout, became a crackerjack trader on Wall Street — a math genius who taught at a Manhattan private school until he was offered a job at Bear Stearns in 1976. He made lots of money for some of the firm’s wealthy clients, and in 1981, he set out on his own, becoming a financial adviser to Leslie Wexner, founder of the Limited retail empire.
Before long, Epstein, now 66, was not just helping the rich get richer but was building his own fortune — and flaunting it with a dazzling array of properties and perks. His house on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was said to be the largest private home in the city, valued at $77 million; his estate in Palm Beach, Fla., rivaled those of Donald Trump and other billionaires.
Epstein used his money to construct a worldwide network of contacts. He donated large sums toward neuroscience research at Harvard and a California lab. He invited researchers to his New York house and talked math with them over equations scrawled on a blackboard in his dining room. He flew former president Bill Clinton and actor Kevin Spacey to Africa to promote AIDS awareness. He was a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Many influential people liked to be around Epstein. He was smart, curious, fun. He wasn’t shy about his money. When he renovated his New York house, he had the sidewalk in front of it heated so that any snow that fell would melt on contact. And he often traveled with young girls, which struck some as odd.
Epstein collected people almost as assiduously as he amassed dollars (he has often been referred to as a billionaire, and his lawyers claimed a decade ago that he was worth nearly enough to qualify for the term, but there’s been no independent accounting of his fortune).
Epstein’s black book of contacts — the printed phone directory that his Palm Beach butler, Alfredo Rodriguez, stole and that later was obtained by the FBI — includes Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger; more than a dozen aides to Clinton; other celebrities such as Alec Baldwin, Naomi Campbell and Jimmy Buffett; media titans such as Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black and Michael Bloomberg; business magnates such as Richard Branson, Steve Forbes and Edgar Bronfman Jr.; Kennedys, Rockefellers and Rothschilds; lords and ladies; ambassadors and senators.
The book lists 16 phone numbers for the Duke of York and his aides, and 18 for the Duchess of York and her court.
There are Democrats and Republicans, movie stars and movie moguls, an Israeli prime minister (Ehud Barak) and Saudi royals (Bandar and Salman), prime ministers and fellow billionaires. The list includes Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and sex counselor Dr. Ruth Westheimer, comic John Cleese and director Julie Taymor, and TV journalists Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace.
“Celebrities, politicians and Hollywood producers hang out with Epstein for one reason . . . he’s got all the toys,” said Conchita Sarnoff, executive director of the Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking and author of a book on the Epstein case, “TrafficKing.” “He has all the trappings — the yachts, the helicopter, the private island, the private jet.”
Sarnoff, who met Epstein in the early 1990s when a mutual friend showed him her photo and he came knocking at her door, said that he was “no party boy. I spent several New Year’s at parties where he was, and he always left early and he never drank. But he had a purpose in being there: He was always focused on being seen with the right people.”
The right people were often quite wealthy, and the markers of their riches included having multiple homes, fleets of vehicles and, as his phone book from the time before smartphones details, a remarkable array of phone numbers. For example, Epstein’s primary client, Wexner, whose holdings included Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch, is listed with 25 car phones — ways to reach him in his various Mercedes, Range Rovers, Jeeps, Porsches and a Lincoln Town Car. (Wexner has said he severed ties with Epstein after allegations of sexual misdeeds surfaced more than a decade ago.)
Epstein was also connected in Hollywood, where producers told Sarnoff that although his story was a natural basis for a movie, no one had ever moved forward on such a project because Epstein was a quiet investor in a number of major Hollywood films. A producer who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about Epstein’s role in the industry confirmed that he had invested in and advised some of the most prominent producers in the business.
Epstein also built relationships at Harvard. Although he never attended the university, he pledged a $30 million gift in 2003 to set up a program to use math to study molecular biology, and he served on the board of the school’s committee on Mind, Brain and Behavior. Epstein opened an office in Cambridge, Mass., to be near some of his allies and interests at Harvard.
After Epstein was first charged with abusing women in 2006, Harvard said it would not return a $6.5 million donation he had made to the university.
Epstein pleaded guilty in state court in Florida in 2007 to charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution, resolving allegations that he had molested numerous girls. He served 13 months in jail, though he was allowed out six days a week to work from his office in Palm Beach. He was also registered as a sex offender. On Monday, he pleaded not guilty to new federal sex trafficking charges in New York that accuse him of abusing dozens of underage girls in the early 2000s. He faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted.
At the time of Harvard’s decision, several politicians who had received contributions from Epstein returned them, including then-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
Epstein developed relationships with politicians in New York, Florida and New Mexico, where he had a ranch he named Zorro. He also knew and spent time with two presidents, Clinton and Trump.
“Epstein surrounded himself with politicians to gain leverage,” Sarnoff said. “They gave him protection, credibility and social mobility.”
If the black book is any guide to the proximity Epstein had to the many boldface names in its pages, then his relationship with Trump was a significant one. Epstein listed 14 phone numbers for Trump; his wife, Melania; his longtime personal assistant, Norma Foerderer; his houseman; and his security officer. Other Trumps in the book include the president’s brother Robert and his wife, Blaine; the president’s ex-wife Ivana; and their daughter, Ivanka.
There is no implication that most of the hundreds of people in the book were involved in or aware of Epstein’s alleged abuse of young girls. Some people listed in the book have said they barely know Epstein.
But after federal agents obtained the list, Rodriguez, the butler, circled a few names in black and noted them as “witnesses.” They included people who worked at Epstein’s Palm Beach estate and some other associates, including Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor, and Trump, both of whom have denied any knowledge of Epstein’s alleged sexual abuses.
Trump banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago estate after a teenage girl who worked in the club’s locker room was recruited to give Epstein a massage, according to David Boies, an attorney for one of Epstein’s alleged victims.
Flight logs show Clinton traveling on Epstein’s private Boeing 727 more than 20 times in the early 2000s, to destinations in Asia, Europe and Africa, and the former president described Epstein in 2002 as “a committed philanthropist with a keen sense of global markets and an in-depth knowledge of twenty-first-century science. I especially appreciated his insights and generosity during the recent trip to Africa.”
Clinton reached that judgment after spending a month with Epstein on a trip to Africa to boost AIDS awareness, according to a letter that attorneys Gerald Lefcourt and Dershowitz wrote to federal prosecutors in defense of Epstein in 2007.
The letter, first reported in 2016 by Fox News, said Epstein was a founding donor to the Clinton Global Initiative. His name does not appear in public documents detailing the initiative’s leadership.
Messages left for Clinton Foundation spokesmen were not returned Tuesday, but Clinton’s representatives issued a statement saying that he “knows nothing about the terrible crimes” to which Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida and that Clinton took “a total of four trips” on Epstein’s plane, with Secret Service agents accompanying the former president each time. Some of those trips included multiple stops.
The phone list is also a guide to Epstein’s globe-trotting lifestyle, with entries for his Paris apartment (along with his favorite restaurants, car service and nightclubs, as well as a long list of “massage” contacts, noted by first name only); his 100-acre Caribbean island (including the helicopter service he used and a list of “massage” contacts); and a Manhattan property listed as “apt. for models.”
Under “Massage” in the book’s Florida section, there are phone numbers for 109 women, each listed by first name only, except for one who is identified as “Janine (red head).”
Epstein’s influential allies have included a dream team of defense lawyers, such as Dershowitz; former Clinton special prosecutor Kenneth Starr; and leading white-collar defense attorneys Lefcourt, Roy Black and Jay Lefkowitz. Alexander Acosta, the current labor secretary, was U.S. attorney in Miami in 2007 and cut a non-prosecution deal that scrapped a federal indictment of Epstein; Acosta called the defense team “an army of legal superstars” and said their “year-long assault” on prosecutors led him to back away from pressing federal charges against Epstein.
That legal battle began on a spring day in 2005, when a Palm Beach woman called the police to report that a rich man in a waterfront mansion had sexually abused her stepdaughter, who was 14.
Yet even as Palm Beach police detectives pressed their investigation, and through years of legal wrangling over whether and how Epstein would be punished for his alleged abuses, many powerful people continued to defend him or minimize his acts, as they had for many years.
In 2002, when a writer described Epstein’s passion for young girls in a piece submitted to Vanity Fair magazine, that material was removed from the story, according to the author, Vicky Ward. The magazine’s editor at the time, Graydon Carter, has said that the story’s reporting did not meet the publication’s standards.
After Epstein donated $100,000 to Ballet Florida to establish a fund for the dancers to get massages, the ballet company’s marketing director said the “massage and therapy fund is excruciatingly important to us,” according to an account in New York magazine in 2007.
Some who had seen Epstein with young girls referred to his “peccadilloes,” and some who knew that teens were often guests at his Caribbean island estate would say they didn’t know that the girls were underage.
“When you have a lot of money, people act differently,” Sarnoff said. “They think they’re above the law. And they’re constantly worried about their money. Epstein made them think he could build their fortunes, and they protected him.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...069e12-a259-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html
July 9 at 8:44 PM
For decades, Jeffrey Epstein, the finance whiz who has been charged with sex trafficking, moved with open ease between the planet’s highest echelons of power and what prosecutors portray as a sordid world of recruiting and sexually abusing teenage girls.
He met with leaders of the nation’s top universities and research labs, traveled with presidents and princes, and managed money for leading business figures. He said the minimum investment he would handle was $1 billion.
Even as dozens of women were looking to police, prosecutors and courts to hold Epstein to account for his alleged sexual abuses, he was amassing a stunning list of contacts and, in some cases, defenders across the worlds of Hollywood moviemaking, medical research, diplomacy, finance, politics and law.
From humble beginnings in Brooklyn’s Coney Island as the son of a parks worker, Epstein, a college dropout, became a crackerjack trader on Wall Street — a math genius who taught at a Manhattan private school until he was offered a job at Bear Stearns in 1976. He made lots of money for some of the firm’s wealthy clients, and in 1981, he set out on his own, becoming a financial adviser to Leslie Wexner, founder of the Limited retail empire.
Before long, Epstein, now 66, was not just helping the rich get richer but was building his own fortune — and flaunting it with a dazzling array of properties and perks. His house on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was said to be the largest private home in the city, valued at $77 million; his estate in Palm Beach, Fla., rivaled those of Donald Trump and other billionaires.
Epstein used his money to construct a worldwide network of contacts. He donated large sums toward neuroscience research at Harvard and a California lab. He invited researchers to his New York house and talked math with them over equations scrawled on a blackboard in his dining room. He flew former president Bill Clinton and actor Kevin Spacey to Africa to promote AIDS awareness. He was a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Many influential people liked to be around Epstein. He was smart, curious, fun. He wasn’t shy about his money. When he renovated his New York house, he had the sidewalk in front of it heated so that any snow that fell would melt on contact. And he often traveled with young girls, which struck some as odd.
Epstein collected people almost as assiduously as he amassed dollars (he has often been referred to as a billionaire, and his lawyers claimed a decade ago that he was worth nearly enough to qualify for the term, but there’s been no independent accounting of his fortune).
Epstein’s black book of contacts — the printed phone directory that his Palm Beach butler, Alfredo Rodriguez, stole and that later was obtained by the FBI — includes Michael Jackson and Mick Jagger; more than a dozen aides to Clinton; other celebrities such as Alec Baldwin, Naomi Campbell and Jimmy Buffett; media titans such as Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black and Michael Bloomberg; business magnates such as Richard Branson, Steve Forbes and Edgar Bronfman Jr.; Kennedys, Rockefellers and Rothschilds; lords and ladies; ambassadors and senators.
The book lists 16 phone numbers for the Duke of York and his aides, and 18 for the Duchess of York and her court.
There are Democrats and Republicans, movie stars and movie moguls, an Israeli prime minister (Ehud Barak) and Saudi royals (Bandar and Salman), prime ministers and fellow billionaires. The list includes Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and sex counselor Dr. Ruth Westheimer, comic John Cleese and director Julie Taymor, and TV journalists Barbara Walters and Mike Wallace.
“Celebrities, politicians and Hollywood producers hang out with Epstein for one reason . . . he’s got all the toys,” said Conchita Sarnoff, executive director of the Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking and author of a book on the Epstein case, “TrafficKing.” “He has all the trappings — the yachts, the helicopter, the private island, the private jet.”
Sarnoff, who met Epstein in the early 1990s when a mutual friend showed him her photo and he came knocking at her door, said that he was “no party boy. I spent several New Year’s at parties where he was, and he always left early and he never drank. But he had a purpose in being there: He was always focused on being seen with the right people.”
The right people were often quite wealthy, and the markers of their riches included having multiple homes, fleets of vehicles and, as his phone book from the time before smartphones details, a remarkable array of phone numbers. For example, Epstein’s primary client, Wexner, whose holdings included Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch, is listed with 25 car phones — ways to reach him in his various Mercedes, Range Rovers, Jeeps, Porsches and a Lincoln Town Car. (Wexner has said he severed ties with Epstein after allegations of sexual misdeeds surfaced more than a decade ago.)
Epstein was also connected in Hollywood, where producers told Sarnoff that although his story was a natural basis for a movie, no one had ever moved forward on such a project because Epstein was a quiet investor in a number of major Hollywood films. A producer who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about Epstein’s role in the industry confirmed that he had invested in and advised some of the most prominent producers in the business.
Epstein also built relationships at Harvard. Although he never attended the university, he pledged a $30 million gift in 2003 to set up a program to use math to study molecular biology, and he served on the board of the school’s committee on Mind, Brain and Behavior. Epstein opened an office in Cambridge, Mass., to be near some of his allies and interests at Harvard.
After Epstein was first charged with abusing women in 2006, Harvard said it would not return a $6.5 million donation he had made to the university.
Epstein pleaded guilty in state court in Florida in 2007 to charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution, resolving allegations that he had molested numerous girls. He served 13 months in jail, though he was allowed out six days a week to work from his office in Palm Beach. He was also registered as a sex offender. On Monday, he pleaded not guilty to new federal sex trafficking charges in New York that accuse him of abusing dozens of underage girls in the early 2000s. He faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted.
At the time of Harvard’s decision, several politicians who had received contributions from Epstein returned them, including then-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
Epstein developed relationships with politicians in New York, Florida and New Mexico, where he had a ranch he named Zorro. He also knew and spent time with two presidents, Clinton and Trump.
“Epstein surrounded himself with politicians to gain leverage,” Sarnoff said. “They gave him protection, credibility and social mobility.”
If the black book is any guide to the proximity Epstein had to the many boldface names in its pages, then his relationship with Trump was a significant one. Epstein listed 14 phone numbers for Trump; his wife, Melania; his longtime personal assistant, Norma Foerderer; his houseman; and his security officer. Other Trumps in the book include the president’s brother Robert and his wife, Blaine; the president’s ex-wife Ivana; and their daughter, Ivanka.
There is no implication that most of the hundreds of people in the book were involved in or aware of Epstein’s alleged abuse of young girls. Some people listed in the book have said they barely know Epstein.
But after federal agents obtained the list, Rodriguez, the butler, circled a few names in black and noted them as “witnesses.” They included people who worked at Epstein’s Palm Beach estate and some other associates, including Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor, and Trump, both of whom have denied any knowledge of Epstein’s alleged sexual abuses.
Trump banned Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago estate after a teenage girl who worked in the club’s locker room was recruited to give Epstein a massage, according to David Boies, an attorney for one of Epstein’s alleged victims.
Flight logs show Clinton traveling on Epstein’s private Boeing 727 more than 20 times in the early 2000s, to destinations in Asia, Europe and Africa, and the former president described Epstein in 2002 as “a committed philanthropist with a keen sense of global markets and an in-depth knowledge of twenty-first-century science. I especially appreciated his insights and generosity during the recent trip to Africa.”
Clinton reached that judgment after spending a month with Epstein on a trip to Africa to boost AIDS awareness, according to a letter that attorneys Gerald Lefcourt and Dershowitz wrote to federal prosecutors in defense of Epstein in 2007.
The letter, first reported in 2016 by Fox News, said Epstein was a founding donor to the Clinton Global Initiative. His name does not appear in public documents detailing the initiative’s leadership.
Messages left for Clinton Foundation spokesmen were not returned Tuesday, but Clinton’s representatives issued a statement saying that he “knows nothing about the terrible crimes” to which Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida and that Clinton took “a total of four trips” on Epstein’s plane, with Secret Service agents accompanying the former president each time. Some of those trips included multiple stops.
The phone list is also a guide to Epstein’s globe-trotting lifestyle, with entries for his Paris apartment (along with his favorite restaurants, car service and nightclubs, as well as a long list of “massage” contacts, noted by first name only); his 100-acre Caribbean island (including the helicopter service he used and a list of “massage” contacts); and a Manhattan property listed as “apt. for models.”
Under “Massage” in the book’s Florida section, there are phone numbers for 109 women, each listed by first name only, except for one who is identified as “Janine (red head).”
Epstein’s influential allies have included a dream team of defense lawyers, such as Dershowitz; former Clinton special prosecutor Kenneth Starr; and leading white-collar defense attorneys Lefcourt, Roy Black and Jay Lefkowitz. Alexander Acosta, the current labor secretary, was U.S. attorney in Miami in 2007 and cut a non-prosecution deal that scrapped a federal indictment of Epstein; Acosta called the defense team “an army of legal superstars” and said their “year-long assault” on prosecutors led him to back away from pressing federal charges against Epstein.
That legal battle began on a spring day in 2005, when a Palm Beach woman called the police to report that a rich man in a waterfront mansion had sexually abused her stepdaughter, who was 14.
Yet even as Palm Beach police detectives pressed their investigation, and through years of legal wrangling over whether and how Epstein would be punished for his alleged abuses, many powerful people continued to defend him or minimize his acts, as they had for many years.
In 2002, when a writer described Epstein’s passion for young girls in a piece submitted to Vanity Fair magazine, that material was removed from the story, according to the author, Vicky Ward. The magazine’s editor at the time, Graydon Carter, has said that the story’s reporting did not meet the publication’s standards.
After Epstein donated $100,000 to Ballet Florida to establish a fund for the dancers to get massages, the ballet company’s marketing director said the “massage and therapy fund is excruciatingly important to us,” according to an account in New York magazine in 2007.
Some who had seen Epstein with young girls referred to his “peccadilloes,” and some who knew that teens were often guests at his Caribbean island estate would say they didn’t know that the girls were underage.
“When you have a lot of money, people act differently,” Sarnoff said. “They think they’re above the law. And they’re constantly worried about their money. Epstein made them think he could build their fortunes, and they protected him.”
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