Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free

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Postby RocketMan » Sun Dec 09, 2018 7:36 am

Well well well... making some inroads it seems!

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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Dec 11, 2018 5:29 pm


Jeffrey Epstein's slap on the wrist raises a lot of questions. The DOJ needs to get answers.

Dec. 11, 2018 / 10:39 AM ET
By Mimi Rocah, former assistant U.S. attorney and NBC/MSNBC legal analyst

As a federal prosecutor for over 16 years, I can tell you that, aside from cases involving murder and violence, there are two categories of crimes that make a career prosecutor’s blood boil: schemes that target elderly victims for money and allegations that involve using children for sex. For six years, between 2001 and 2007, Jeffrey Epstein allegedly ran a sex trafficking ring that preyed on minor girls as young as 13. So why was he given a slap on the wrist by federal prosecutors in Florida?

Senators, both Republican and Democrat, are asking the same question. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., wrote a series of letters to the Department of Justice last week, calling for the DOJ’s inspector general to review the handling of the case as well as for a congressional review of the “decision-making” process. Sasse is right to demand answers here, because while the criminal case has been resolved, many questions remain.

Sasse is right to demand answers here, because while the criminal case has been resolved, many questions remain.
According to extensive reporting by the Miami Herald, Epstein recruited, manipulated and lured at least 80 girls to his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida and elsewhere, then sexually abused them, often by asking them for “massages.” In reality, these girls were paid to be victims of his sexual assault, molestation and rape. Epstein even photographed the girls in some cases — a possible separate crime of production of child pornography. Epstein also allegedly turned some of the girls into unwilling co-conspirators who helped him recruit and deceive other victims. A well-connected millionaire, Epstein was often seen in the company of men like Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, Alan Dershowitz and Donald Trump. (Dershowitz told Axios he still provides legal advice to Epstein.)

The case was investigated and initially pursued by the United States Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida (SDFL), headed by Alex Acosta, the current Secretary of Labor. However, instead of pursuing the case, the SDFL entered into what is known as a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) with Epstein in which they agreed that the federal investigation (against Epstein and anyone else who may have been a subject of it) would cease and Epstein would plead guilty to certain state charges for which he would serve 18 months in prison and register as a sex offender. In addition, the SDFL agreed to give Epstein’s attorneys a list of “individuals it has identified as victims.” In short, this was a shockingly lenient deal for a crime of such magnitude.

I was involved in many sex-trafficking and sexual exploitation cases involving minors as a federal prosecutor. These cases usually involved one or two victims but were charged under the very same statutes that documents show federal prosecutors were planning to use in Epstein’s case, including: sex trafficking of a child under 18 (18 U.S.C. § 1591); conspiring or causing or traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of engaging in sex with a minor (18 U.S.C. § 2423(a)); and enticing or coercing a child under 18 to engage in prostitution (including attempt) (18 U.S.C. § 2422(b)); and a statute that likely could have applied here but wasn’t even mentioned in available documents, production of child pornography (18 U.S.C. § 2255). Individuals charged under these federal statutes, in my experience, were typically subject to strict mandatory minimums of 10 or 15 years in prison, per count, and those counts were often stacked one on top of the other.

Congress has passed stringent laws for sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of minors because these are heinous crimes. Epstein, however, was able to escape this punishment, despite alleged crimes that by all accounts were indeed heinous. Let me preface what follows by saying this: As a former prosecutor, I am reluctant to pass judgment on the decisions of other fellow prosecutors’ decisions without the benefit of all of the facts. However, the known facts in this case cry out for an official, thorough inquiry.

U.S. attorney R. Alexander Acosta talks to reporters during a news conference in Miami on Sept. 17, 2008.Alan Diaz / AP, file
In my experience, allowing the target of an investigation of this nature to plead guilty to anything less than the applicable mandatory minimums would have only been allowed a few specific circumstances, like when the evidence against the target was weak or questionable or when victims did not want to come forward or testify or when there was some other strong mitigating factor such as mental incapacity of the target. Based on reporting thus far, none of these circumstances appear to have been factors here. There was some indication that Epstein had provided unspecified cooperation in exchange for such lenient treatment. But I can think of only two examples, in my experience, of a sexual predator of Epstein’s magnitude being allowed to cooperate in exchange for leniency. And, in those cases, the cooperation was extremely unique and substantial. Was that the case here?

In addition, in my experience, many different supervisory attorneys would be involved in a decision to allow a defendant like Epstein to receive a “break” like this. Such discussions and decisions would be made following meetings with defense counsel and all relevant personnel from the U.S. attorney’s office together discussing the different equities. In Epstein’s case, the U.S. attorney at the time, Acosta, was directly and personally involved in these negotiations, including through having meetings with former colleagues about the case at off-site locations without the case attorneys involved. That seems highly irregular in and of itself.

And what about the rights of the victims? Why were the identities of minor victims turned over to Epstein’s attorneys? In my experience, my office fought to protect the identities of victims especially in cases involving sexual abuse. In a case like this, prosecutors should keep victims of such crimes apprised, pursuant to the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, 18 USC §377. Here, the victims were apparently deliberately kept in the dark about the plea deal until it was too late. The SDFL has reportedly said that, because the case was not yet charged, there were no identifiable victims under the Victims’ Rights Act. This explanation rings completely hollow.

The non-prosecution agreement itself describes “individuals identified as victims,” albeit for different purposes. And the VRA defines a “victim” as a “person directly and proximately harmed as a result of the commission of a Federal offense.” If Epstein could have been charged with the offense and the victims were known, they were harmed and should have been notified. What was the real reason that they weren’t? Why were the identities of minor victims turned over to Epstein’s attorneys? We fought to protect the identities of victims especially in cases involving sexual abuse.

Finally, the government’s agreement to suspend and hold in abeyance any grand jury investigation for other people potentially involved in these crimes is simply baffling. In my experience, prosecutors and investigating agents would have looked for every way possible to advance a case of this type, which means seeking out co-conspirators and enablers. Why was that opportunity surrendered here?

All of these questions are now best answered by the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General and a formal investigation and inquiry should begin immediately. Cases like Epstein’s don’t just hurt the victims, they undermine the legitimacy of the entire justice system.

Mimi Rocah, currently a Distinguished Criminal Justice Fellow at Pace University Law School, served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2001 to 2017. Rocah is an NBC and MSNBC legal analyst.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Dec 18, 2018 8:43 am

Ridiculously lenient Acosta/Epstein plea deal demands a federal investigation

What is Michael Horowitz, the inspector general of the Department of Justice, waiting for?

At least 80 young girls identified as victims of Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sexual abuse.

A top federal prosecutor — at the time, Alex Acosta — lets Epstein’s attorneys call the shots.

Epstein goes to jail for just over a year — on two prostitution charges, instead of, possibly, for the rest of his life.

And the young girls are kept in the dark, never told that Epstein got a slap on the wrist and denied a chance to challenge it in court.

The sweetheart deal puts an end to a federal investigation likely to end in an indictment for Epstein for international sex-trafficking.

Questions need answers. At least 30 U.S. lawmakers, on both sides of the aisle, have rightly requested an investigation to get the bottom of this cesspool.

Horowitz has the authority to conduct an independent probe into the case. He reports to the attorney general and to Congress. He should bring the full weight of that authority to bear — immediately — and announce that the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is jump-starting an investigation into how this misbegotten deal happened and why: Acosta met with Epstein attorney Jay Lefkowitz alone. None of the federal prosecutors conducting or supervising the investigation were present, as is the norm. Why? The girls never were told of the lenient plea deal, as required by the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act. Why?

Ultimately, the OIG’s final report would help Congress exercise its oversight function and could move Congress to pass laws, if those are needed, to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. It would also allow the public to know why Acosta was so lenient with Epstein. Acosta would be given the opportunity to speak to the OIG.

The Miami Herald’s comprehensive series “Perversion of Justice” not only revealed the depth of depravity on the part of Epstein and his relationships with girls as young as 13, but also the extent to which this well-connected multimillionaire got federal prosecutors to do his bidding.

A decade later, Epstein is a global jet-setter who calls a private tropical island home. Acosta is embattled, but so far sitting pretty, as U.S. labor secretary. (The Editorial Board has been among several voices calling for his resignation.) Many of the accused Epstein’s partners in sexual molestation — who might have procured young girls for him or participated in sex acts — have moved on, remade their lives and are doing very well, thank you.

But what of the girls, who now are young women in their 20s and 30s? For them, “closure” is just a word. Justice, real justice, is elusive at best, and a joke at the worst. Last week, lawyers for some of Epstein’s victims asked a federal judge to throw out the Epstein/Acosta plea agreement or, at the least, schedule a hearing on the motion. U.S. Judge Kenneth Marra has had this case before him for a year. It would be inconceivably cruel for him to make the women wait any longer.

It may be that vacating the plea deal will be a long shot. Epstein has completed the sentence as required and, since the women were not a party to the agreement, it’s questionable as to whether they have standing. But we ask Marra to give this all due consideration to the extent that the law allows.

For the rest of us, Inspector General Horowitz has a chance to help ensure that U.S. prosecutors never go so far afield. To ignore this imperative would be a further perversion of justice.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Dec 18, 2018 7:07 pm

talk about the pot calling the kettle black...

Dershowitz claims "the villain here is David Boies, who is exploiting a crazy woman in order to get revenge against me"

...David Boies is the lawyer who hired Black Cube to discredit Weinstein accusers

They deserve each other


Second woman claims billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein 'directed' her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz

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Second woman claims billionaire perv Jeffrey Epstein 'directed' her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz (pictured) denies allegations of a second alleged trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein. (John Lamparski / Getty Images for Hulu)
A second alleged trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein says the billionaire pedophile "directed" her to have sex with Alan Dershowitz — a claim the prominent attorney adamantly denies.

The revelation regarding Sarah Ransome's allegations against the 80-year-old lawyer who represented the notorious sex offender is included in a public transcript available in Manhattan Federal Court.

Ransome has sued Epstein and his alleged madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, saying they trafficked her for sex from 2006 to 2007, while she was in her 20s.

During a Nov. 7 hearing on Ransome's case, Maxwell's attorney Laura Menninger mentioned the explosive allegation against Dershowitz.

"(Ransome) has alleged not only that my client ran a sex trafficking organization but she claims also that she was directed by my client and the Epstein defendants to have sex with third parties, including Alan Dershowitz, for example," Menninger said.

Ransome alleges in her suit that even as Epstein used an army of powerful attorneys — including Dershowitz — to fight a sex trafficking investigation in Florida, he continued "transporting young females" in New York.

Dershowitz furiously denied he'd ever met Ransome, who now lives in Barcelona, and said that "none of this happened." He slammed her as mentally unstable and said she'd bizarrely claimed to be in possession of a video of President Trump engaging in pedophilia and sex tapes of both Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Ransome is unwell and being manipulated by her high-powered attorney David Boies, Dershowitz said.

"The villain here is David Boies, who is exploiting a crazy woman in order to get revenge against me," Dershowitz said.

Dershowitz, a noted Harvard Law professor, said Boies is furious about bar charges Dershowitz filed against him. Details of the charges were unavailable and neither side would go into detail. Dershowitz added that he eagerly awaited an opportunity to sue Ransome for defamation.

"Alan Dershowitz's absurd attacks on me are consistent with his pattern of attacking every lawyer who has represented women who have accused him of sexual abuse," Boies said.

"This is simply a pattern where he thinks if he is loud enough and crazy enough it will distract attention from what he's done."

Virginia Roberts was the first alleged Epstein victim to claim that he directed her to have sex with Dershowitz. Dershowitz insists he also has never met Roberts, who now lives in Australia.

Roberts alleged that Maxwell recruited her for Epstein in 1998, when she was 15 years old and working a summer job at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. Roberts sued Maxwell for defamation, claiming the media heiress smeared her by denying the disturbing sex scheme.

They settled the case last year. Dershowitz is now seeking to have documents in the case, which he says would clear his name, unsealed.

The Epstein case has received new scrutiny following a Miami Herald investigation that revived questions about the legal slap on the wrist the billionaire received from then-Southern Florida U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta.

In a new letter filed in Manhattan Federal Court, Dershowitz's attorney writes that the law professor has been the victim of "selective leaking" intended to smear his good name.

"Once again, Mr. Dershowitz – who has conscientiously and expeditiously pressed, through the judicial process, for disclosure of all documents in the case – has been the victim of one-sided and selective leaking of materials," attorney Andrew Celli wrote.

Dershowitz – who recently lamented he'd become persona non grata on Martha's Vineyard for his support of Trump – says that Roberts is the likely leaker.

She alleged in 2014 that Epstein "trafficked" her to Dershowitz and Prince Andrew for sex – a claim that has since been stricken from the record.

"The allegation is utterly false and defamatory: Mr. Dershowitz has never even met Ms. Roberts . . . records prove that Mr. Dershowitz could not have abused Ms. Roberts because he was not present in the places where she claims such abuse occurred," Celli wrote.

Prince Andrew also denied the allegation. Roberts settled her claims against Epstein in 2015.

The Herald's investigation highlighted the unusually cozy relationship between Epstein's legal team and Acosta, who gave the sex offender a generous plea deal. Epstein only served 13 months in a private wing of the Palm Beach County jail despite ample evidence he'd orchestrated an international sex trafficking operation, the Herald reported.

Jeffrey Epstein (second from left) in custody in Florida in 2008
Jeffrey Epstein (second from left) in custody in Florida in 2008 (Uma Sanghvi / AP)
Epstein, a hedge fund manager with a mansion on the Upper East Side and a private Caribbean island, was once friends with the likes of Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Woody Allen, among other celebs and business titans.

"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side," Trump said of Epstein in 2002.

The new scrutiny of the Epstein case prompted Dershowitz to tell Axios that the billionaire had once let him and his family stay at his Palm Beach home.

"He lent us his house once. And I was there, my grandchildren were there, my daughter was there, and we all got massages," Dershowitz told the site.

"It was therapeutic. I had a therapeutic massage with an old old Russian. . . . Believe me, if I had known that anything improper had ever taken place in that house, I never would have allowed my children, my grandchildren, my wife, my daughter-in-law, my son, to have spent time there."

Stephen Rex Brown is a reporter covering New York City courts for the New York Daily News.

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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Dec 22, 2018 8:58 am


Jeffrey Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome settles case against billionaire perv and his alleged madame
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Jeffrey Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome settles case against billionaire perv and his alleged madame
In this July 30, 2008, file photo, Jeffrey Epstein appears in custody in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Uma Sanghvi / AP)
Jeffrey Epstein has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who accused him and his alleged madam of coercing her to sleep with the billionaire sex offender.

A notice of the deal with Sarah Ransome was filed in Manhattan Federal Court on Thursday. A person familiar with the settlement said Epstein was covering the cost. The exact amount was confidential.

Ransome had charged that Epstein and British socialite Ghislane Maxwell trafficked her between 2006 and 2007, when she was in her 20s.

“I can say that we are very pleased with the settlement. It will provide (Ransome) with economic security. While it was long overdue, it provides as much vindication and justice as money can provide for a victim of sex trafficking,” Ransome’s attorney, David Boies, said.

Ransome alleged that Maxwell recruited her as a masseuse for Epstein, but that they then took her passport and threatened her if she didn’t have sex with the rich hedge fund manager.

She said this happened in New York at the same time Epstein’s team of prominent attorneys, including Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, were aggressively negotiating with federal prosecutors investigating the perv in Florida for a trafficking scheme involving underage girls.

The Daily News exclusively reported on Tuesday that Ransome alleged in the court proceedings that Epstein had “directed” her to have sex with Dershowitz. The lawyer adamantly denied the claim.

The Miami Herald, which recently ran a series of articles on the sweetheart deal Epstein received from federal prosecutors in 2008, was first to report the settlement in the Ransome case. . Epstein only served 13 months in a private wing of the Palm Beach County jail after pleading guilty to two prostitution charges.

It comes only two weeks after Epstein settled a separate suit filed by an attorney representing other alleged Epstein victims who said they were trafficked while underage.

Much of the record in the Ransome case remains sealed. Epstein was once friends with numerous prominent celebrities and politicians, including former President Bill Clinton and President Trump.

An attorney for Epstein declined comment. Maxwell’s attorney did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Jan 29, 2019 10:01 pm

Justice Department's inspector general wants authority to investigate a decade-old plea deal in which Acosta allegedly helped an accused sex offender skirt harsh punishment for crimes against teens



Labor Secretary’s Role in Abuse Deal Could Get DOJ Scrutiny (2)

Posted Jan. 29, 2019, 3:46 PM Updated Jan. 29, 2019, 4:42 PM

Labor secretary was prosecutor in Jeffrey Epstein case

Bipartisan group has called for some kind of probe

The Justice Department’s inspector general wants lawmakers to give him the authority to investigate a decade-old plea deal in which Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta allegedly allowed an accused sex offender to skirt the harshest punishment for crimes against teens.

“Your letter raises important questions about the resolution of this case by department attorneys,” DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a Jan. 29 letter to lawmakers. “However, the OIG does not currently have jurisdiction over matters involving allegations of misconduct relating to DOJ attorneys’ handling of litigation or legal decisions.”

The department’s watchdog responded to lawmakers’ calls to look into an agreement that Acosta—then a federal prosecutor in South Florida—reached with lawyers for Miami hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, which allowed Epstein to avoid federal sex trafficking charges. Epstein was sentenced to 13 months in prison on lesser charges.

Horowitz called on the Senate to take up a bill (H.R. 202) recently passed by the House. He said that legislation would give him the authority to investigate alleged prosecutorial misconduct.

A November Miami Herald report on the Epstein case has renewed public attention to the allegations against Epstein, who was accused of running a teen sex ring out of his Florida home. It’s also brought new criticism to Acosta, who as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida is said to have helped orchestrate the agreement.

Epstein’s all star legal defense team included Harvard University professor Alan Dershowitz, former special prosecutor Kenneth Starr, and famed criminal defense attorney Roy Black.

The Labor Department declined Bloomberg Law’s request for comment. A DOL spokeswoman on Jan. 15 told Bloomberg Law that Acosta acted appropriately.

“For more than a decade, this prosecution has been reviewed in great detail by newspaper articles, television reports, books, and Congressional testimony,” the spokeswoman said. “Department of Justice leadership, likewise, reviewed the matter at the time, and the Department has continued to defend the Southern District of Florida’s actions across three administrations and several attorneys general on the grounds that the actions taken were in accordance with Department practices, procedures, and the law.”

Acosta was rumored to be on a short list of potential replacements for Jeff Sessions as the U.S. Attorney General before the Herald story was published. The former Justice Department civil rights chief and National Labor Relations Board member is also widely believed to be interested in a federal judge seat.

The renewed attention to the Epstein case and possible DOJ investigation may put that goal on the back burner.

Acosta in a 2011 letter obtained by the Daily Beast said he was brought into the case because local police officers were concerned that state prosecutors would let Epstein off easy. He said the deal was reached after Epstein’s lawyers launched “a year-long assault on the prosecution and the prosecutors” that was “more aggressive than which I, or any of the prosecutors in my office, had previously encountered.”

The House Jan. 15 passed by voice vote the Inspector General Access Act, which would move DOJ prosecutor misconduct probes to the inspector general from the Office of Professional Responsibility. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), whose panel would likely get first crack at the bill, recently joined Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) in urging Attorney general nominee William Barr to conduct a “full and thorough” investigation of the Epstein case if confirmed for the post.

A Graham spokesman didn’t immediately respond to Bloomberg Law’s request for comment.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Feb 06, 2019 6:43 pm


Justice Department opens probe into Jeffrey Epstein plea deal

BY JULIE K. BROWN

FEBRUARY 06, 2019 04:19 PM


A Miami Herald investigation into Palm Beach hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein's sexual pyramid scheme targeting underage girls– and why he's a free man today.
The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta’s role in negotiating a controversial plea deal with a wealthy New York investor accused of molesting more than 100 underage girls in Palm Beach.

The probe is in response to a request by Sen. Ben Sasse, a a Nebraska Republican and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who raised questions about the case following a series of stories in the Miami Herald. The Herald articles detailed how Acosta, then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and other DOJ attorneys worked hand-in-hand with defense attorneys to cut a lenient plea deal with multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2008.

The Herald’s three-part series, Perversion of Justice,’ was cited by Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd in his letter to Sasse. DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility will head the investigation, he said.

“OPR has now opened an investigation into allegations that Department attorneys may have committed professional misconduct in the manner in which the Epstein criminal matter was resolved,’’ wrote Boyd in the letter dated Wednesday.

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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby Belligerent Savant » Wed Feb 06, 2019 10:59 pm

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At the time, the FBI was run by Robert Mueller.

one Twitter user who did a deep dive into a cache of redacted FBI Vault documents released last year raised the possibility that Epstein could have been an informant for the FBI, providing information on executives from failed investment bank Bear Stearns in exchange for the lenient sentence (though there's nothing in his guilty plea that suggested he provided information).

To be sure, records show that Epstein passed a polygraph test showing that he didn't know any of the girls he solicited were under the age of 18 at the time. Also, the case has taken on renewed importance since opposition research shops tried to link President Trump to Epstein during the campaign.


This link contains numerous tweets by 'Techno Fog' Re: Esptein as an alleged informant to the FBI (and other allegations), the first of which is reproduced below:
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Feb 07, 2019 11:47 am

Sentencing.

In June 2008
after Epstein pleaded guilty to a single state charge of soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

maybe he just wanted a shorter time in jail?

I started to read his twitter

that he didn't know any of the girls he solicited were under the age of 18 at the time.


I guess he just didn't ask how old they were :roll:

I did not stop at the Mike Cernovich retweet

but did stop at the Techno Fog Retweeted of Michelle Malkin

one gets a sense when reading who one retweets

Techno Fog seems to want to give Roger Stone the benefit of the doubt


:)



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The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta’.....the decision maker
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:15 am


Watchdog group starts ad campaign against labor secretary over Epstein deal

BY JULIE K. BROWN

FEBRUARY 07, 2019 04:41 PM


The girls who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein and the cops who championed their cause remain angry over what they regard as a gross injustice, while Epstein's employees and those who engineered his non-prosecution agreement have prospered.
U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta is the target of an ad campaign begun Wednesday by a Washington-based consumer watchdog group demanding that he answer questions about a secret plea deal he gave a wealthy New York financial advisor accused of sex trafficking underage girls.

Allied Progress, which normally advocates for student loan clients and against Wall Street special interests, is urging activists on social media to share a video about Acosta produced by the group and to sign a petition demanding that the U.S. Senate pass a bill that would give the Department of Justice’s inspector general the authority to investigate the controversial case. Multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein escaped a possible life sentence as a result of an unusual non-prosecution agreement Acosta approved in 2008, while he was the U.S. attorney in Miami.

The group noted that it is especially troubled by Acosta’s response to questions posed by senators at his 2017 Senate confirmation hearing to become President Donald Trump’s labor secretary.

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This is the Palm Beach home of multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, where he is believed to have sexually abused scores of underage girls.
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“At the end of the day, based on the evidence, professionals within a prosecutor’s office decided that a plea that guarantees someone goes to jail, that guarantees he register generally [as a sexual predator] and guarantees other outcomes, is a good thing,’’ Acosta said during the hearing.

In a news release, the group urged senators to take up a bill to allow the Justice Department inspector general to conduct an independent probe.


“Secretary Acosta doesn’t just believe it was appropriate to let a wealthy, connected man involved in rampant child abuse walk away with a slap on the wrist, he actually considers it a ‘point of pride’ — even worse, a ‘good thing,’ ’’ the group said.


Attorney Brad Edwards, middle, reached a civil settlement against Jeffrey Epstein in Palm Beach County Court where Epstein admitted, through a written statement, that the charges he had leveled against Edwards were completely false.

By Emily Michot
The effort follows a Miami Herald three-part series, Perversion of Justice,’ that detailed how federal prosecutors, led by Acosta, worked with the investment counselor’s attorneys to come up with a special deal for Epstein, a multimillionaire who ran a sex pyramid scheme from his Palm Beach estate that targeted underage girls.

Epstein, 66, was granted federal immunity, along with others who were allegedly part of the conspiracy but not named.


Epstein’s victims were not told about the arrangement and, after a brief stint in the Palm Beach County Jail on prostitution charges, Epstein was released in 2009.

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U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has been criticized for the plea deal he worked out with Jeffrey Epstein. Acosta was U.S. attorney for Southern Florida at the time.
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The ad campaign comes one day after the Justice Department notified Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse that it had opened an investigation into possible misconduct by prosecutors who handled the case. That review, however, is being conducted by the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility, the equivalent of a police internal affairs bureau. It has been criticized for shielding prosecutors who commit wrongdoing. The results of the office’s investigations are rarely made public.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz and a string of former inspector generals have been urging Congress to give the IG the authority to oversee and investigate DOJ attorneys. They argue that OPR has failed to provide transparency and adequate oversight.



Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a free man, despite sexually abusing dozens of underage girls according to police and prosecutors. His victims have never had a voice, until now.

By Emily Michot
A bipartisan effort to change the law died last year, but a bill called the “Inspector General Access Act” was reintroduced in the House last month and passed unanimously. The Senate would have to take up the issue for it to become law. The group singled out Sen. Lindsay Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, urging him to take action on the bill.

Acosta has not returned phone calls or emails to his office from the Herald for comment.

Epstein’s attorney, Martin Weinberg, also did not return emails and phone calls to his office. However, he told the New York Times that “multiple levels of the Department of Justice’’ reviewed and approved the deal.


“The agreement entered into between Jeffrey Epstein and the United States Attorney’s Office was fairly negotiated by experienced teams of attorneys representing each party. It was anything but a sweetheart deal,’’ he said in an email to the Times.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:38 pm

Federal prosecutors — including Trump's Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta — broke the law in keeping sweetheart plea with rich sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from his underage victims, judge rules.

Key passage from the 33-page opinion and order, linked here:
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The judge explains why withholding information about the non-prosecution agreement from the victims is more damaging that concealing a plea agreement.

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Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules

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A judge ruled Thursday that federal prosecutors — among them, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta — broke federal law when they signed a plea agreement with a wealthy, politically connected sex trafficker and concealed it from more than 30 of his underage victims.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra, in a 33-page opinion, said that the evidence he reviewed showed that Jeffrey Epstein had been operating an international sex operation in which he and others recruited underage girls — not only in Florida — but from overseas, in violation of federal law.

“Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him.,’’ wrote Marra, who is based in Palm Beach County. “Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others.’’

Instead of prosecuting Epstein under federal sex trafficking laws, Acosta, then the U.S. attorney in Miami, helped negotiate a non-prosecution agreement that gave Epstein and his co-conspirators immunity from federal prosecution. Epstein, who lived in a Palm Beach mansion, was allowed to quietly plead guilty in state court to two prostitution charges and served just 13 months in the county jail. His accomplices, some of whom have never been identified, were never charged.

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Jeffrey Epstein is flanked by his legal team during a court hearing in the summer of 2008.

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Acosta agreed to seal the deal, which meant that none of Epstein’s victims, who were mostly 13 to 16 years old at the time of the abuse, were told about it until it was too late for them to appear at his sentencing and possibly reject the deal. Upon learning that Epstein had pleaded guilty without their knowledge, two of his victims filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida in 2008, claiming that prosecutors violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, which grants victims of federal crimes a series of rights, including the ability to confer with prosecutors about a possible plea deal.

Marra agreed, saying that while prosecutors had the right to resolve the case in any way they saw fit, they violated the law by hiding the agreement from Epstein’s victims. Marra’s decision capped 11 years of litigation — which included the release of a trove of emails showing how Acosta and other prosecutors worked with Epstein’s high profile lawyers to conceal the deal — and the scope of Epstein’s crimes — from both his victims and the public.

“Particularly problematic was the Government’s decision to conceal the existence of the [agreement] and mislead the victims to believe that federal prosecution was still a possibility,’’ Marra wrote. “When the Government gives information to victims, it cannot be misleading. While the Government spent untold hours negotiating the terms and implications of the [agreement] with Epstein’s attorneys, scant information was shared with victims.’’

The U.S. attorney’s office in Miami declined to comment.

Brad Edwards, the Fort Lauderdale attorney who brought the case, said he was elated at the judge’s ruling, but admitted he is bitter that the case took 11 years to litigate, blaming federal prosecutors for needlessly dragging out the case when they could have remedied their error when it was brought to their attention in 2008.

“The Government aligned themselves with Epstein, working against his victims, for 11 years,’’ Edwards said. “Yes, this is a huge victory, but to make his victims suffer for 11 years, this should not have happened. Instead of admitting what they did, and doing the right thing, they spent 11 years fighting these girls.’’

While the victims ultimately would like to see Epstein go to jail, the judge’s ruling stopped short of issuing a remedy or punishment. He gave the government and victims 15 days to confer with each other to come up with a resolution. It’s unclear what that resolution would be.

Edwards conceded that Epstein’s sentence isn’t likely to be overturned. He was released in 2009.

But victims’ rights advocates say that other charges can still be brought against Epstein if more victims come forward in other jurisdictions. There has been no statute of limitations for sex trafficking since 2002.

The decision follows a three-part series published by the Miami Herald in November, “Perversion of Justice,’’ which detailed how federal prosecutors worked in concert with Epstein’s lawyers to arrange the deal.

Since then, the U.S. Department of Justice has launched a probe into whether federal prosecutors committed any wrongdoing.

This breaking story will be updated.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

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The Palm Beach federal court's finding that prosecutors violated the rights of Jeffrey Epstein's victims by failing to notify them that the govt would enter into a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein. It illustrates a v cozy relationship w the defense. https://assets.documentcloud.org/docume ... pinion.pdf

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...the opinion also illustrates that, while working hand in glove with the defense, the prosecutors in Alex Acosta's U.S. Attorney's office developed no relationship whatsoever with the minor victims of Epstein's crimes.

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Alexander Acosta, Trump’s Labor Secretary, Broke the Law in Jeffrey Epstein Case: Judge
The ruling comes less than a month after the Department of Justice announced their own investigation into the billionaire’s secret plea deal.

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Federal prosecutors in Florida—including President Trump’s current Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta—broke the law when they signed a secret plea agreement with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a Palm Beach judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra ruled that the decision to keep more than 30 of Epstein’s accusers in the dark about the non-prosecution deal that allowed Epstein, a prominent financier with political connections, to avoid federal prosecution was unconstitutional.

By signing the deal, Marra ruled, Acosta and other DOJ lawyers violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA), which guarantees victims the right to speak with prosecutors.

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“Petitioners and the other victims should have been notified of the Government’s intention to take that course of action before it bound itself under” a plea agreement, Marra wrote in the 33-page opinion, which mentioned Acosta multiple times.

The evidence, the judge concluded, shows that Epstein, 66, violated federal in 2008 by running an international sex trafficking operation that recruited underage girls, often times bringing them to the U.S. from overseas.

“Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him,’’ Marra wrote. “Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others.’’

A bombshell Miami Herald report revealed how Epstein—who has been accused of molesting more than 100 underage girls—was granted the sweetheart plea deal by Acosta and other DOJ attorneys after mounting pressure by Epstein’s defense lawyers.

“When the Government gives information to victims, it cannot be misleading,” the judge wrote. “While the Government spent untold hours negotiating the terms and implications of the NPA with Epstein’s attorneys, scant information was shared with victims. Instead, the victims were told to be ‘patient’ while the investigation proceeded.”


Those lawyers, including Sexgate prosecutor Ken Starr and celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz, created the secret 2008 plea deal with Acosta, who was then Miami’s top federal prosecutor, and other attorneys unbeknownst to the billionaire’s alleged victims, the Herald investigation found.

“Particularly problematic was the Government’s decision to conceal the existence of the NPA and mislead the victims to believe that federal prosecution was still a possibility,” the judge wrote on Thursday about the secret plan that effectively buried dozens of sexual-abuse claims.

Epstein, instead of facing life in prison for sex trafficking, only pleaded guilty to two minor charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution. He ultimately served 13 months of an 18-month prison sentence.

Thursday’s decision concluded an 11-year investigation into Epstein’s plea agreement, which revealed hundreds of emails showing how Acosta and other prosecutors worked with Epstein’s legal team to conceal the deal from victims and the public.

“This is a huge victory but this should not have happened in the first place,” Brad Edwards, the attorney who brought the case on behalf of Epstein’s victims, said. “These women have spent 11 years fighting for justice.”

Edwards, who has had his own legal battle with Epstein, said the judge’s ruling did not give a solution to the unconstitutional plea deal, and instead gave the government and victims 15 days to jointly decide a resolution.

The decision comes less than a month after the Department of Justice announced it has opened an investigation into Epstein’s sweetheart plea deal to determine whether department lawyers “committed professional misconduct” during his prosecution.

“For more than a decade, the actions of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida in this case have been defended by the Department of Justice in litigation across three administrations and several attorneys general,” a Department of Labor spokesperson told The Daily Beast Thursday. “The office’s decisions were approved by departmental leadership and followed departmental procedures.”
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

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SLAD, could you possibly edit your posts a tiny lil bit, just to make the gist of the post be clear...? At least where fresh news is concerned? Threads here these days seem to devolve into massive data dumps. New developments in issues are being submerged in a sea of document jpgs. Pretty please with a cherry on top?
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Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules

Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

While the decision marks a victory for crime victims, the federal judge, Kenneth A. Marra, stopped short of overturning Epstein’s plea deal, or issuing an order resolving the case. He instead gave federal prosecutors 15 days to confer with Epstein’s victims and their attorneys to come up with a settlement. The victims did not seek money or damages as part of the suit.
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Jeffrey Epstein, a serial child-rapist and pal of Trump, was represented by an all-star legal team including ALAN DERSHOWITZ & Ken Starr when he got the "deal of a lifetime" on his sex crimes charges from prosecutor Alex Acosta, now Trump's Sec of Labor.




For a guy who once tried to unseat a President for a totally inappropriate consensual blowjob, Ken Starr sure does like to cover up sexual assault.


24/ 11/30/07, Acosta writes to Epstein atty Ken Starr: “I am directing our prosecutors not to issue victim notification letters until this Friday at 5 p.m., to provide you with time to review these options with your client.”

Ultimately NO letters to victims were sent in Dec 07




Jake Tapper


Taking a closer look at Judge Kenneth Mara's opinion and order finding that the DOJ -- and specifically then-US Attorney, now Labor Secretary Alex Acosta -- violated the law in the Epstein plea deal. (Thread)


2/ First off, again, full credit to the amazing reporting by @jkbjournalist of the @MiamiHerald for "How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime"...worth a read:


3/ Judge Kenneth Mara presents these facts: "From between about 1999 and 2007, Jeffrey Epstein sexually abused more than 30 minor girls, including Petitioners Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2..."


4/ "Epstein and his co-conspirators knowingly traveled in interstate and international commerce to sexually abuse Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2 and others...
Epstein directed other persons to abuse the girls sexually..."


5/ In 2005, the Palm Beach Police Department "received a complaint
from the parents of a 14 year old girl about her sexual abuse by Jeffery Epstein." PBPD found "20 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who were sexually abused by Epstein." FBI began investigating as well.


6/ From Jan-Sept 2007, discussions took place between the office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida -- Alex Acosta -- & Epstein's attorneys. At that time, Acosta's office was also informing the victims of Epstein's crimes of their rights...


7. ...specifically rights as established in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, including "the right to be heard in public court proceedings relating to...acceptance of a plea bargain" and "the right to be informed in a timely manner of any plea bargain"

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33679.pdf


8/ On or about June 7, 2007, the FBI delivered to Jane Doe 1 the standard CVRA victim notification letter promising DOJ would make its “best efforts” to protect those rights, Jane Doe 1 "believed that the Government would protect those rights," the judge wrote.


9/ Jane Doe 2 received her CVRA victim notification letter on or about August 11. At the time she was being represented by an attorney Epstein was paying for.

10/ US Attorney Acosta's office and Epstein's attorneys entered into a non-prosecution agreement - NPA - on Sept 24, 2007 "whereby the
United States would defer federal prosecution in favor of prosecution by the State of Florida." Did Acosta's office inform the victims? ...


11/ Judge Mara: "From the time the FBI began investigating Epstein until September 24, 2007—when the NPA was concluded—the Office never conferred with the victims about a NPA or told the victims that such an agreement was under consideration."


12/ Not only that -- but "Epstein’s counsel was aware that the Office was deliberately keeping the NPA secret from the victims and, indeed, had sought assurances to that effect."

Acosta's US Attorney's office, working with the accused, against the rights of the victims.


13/ The line prosecutor writes to the Epstein attorneys about how to achieve something “On an ‘avoid the press’ note"... filing something in "District Court in Miami, which will hopefully cut the press coverage significantly.”

???


14/ 9/25/07, the line prosecutor writes to Epstein's attorney regarding three attorneys who might represent the victims: "I have concerns about whether there would be an inherent tension because they may feel that THEY might make more money (and get a lot more press coverage)...


15/ "...if they proceed outside the Terms of the plea agreement. (Sorry – I just
have a bias against plaintiffs’ attorneys.) One nice thing about Bert is that he is in Miami where there has been almost no coverage of this case.”


16/ Epstein's attorney to Acosta, 10/10/07: “Neither federal agents nor anyone from your Office should contact the identified individuals to inform them of the resolution of the case..."


17/ Epstein's attorney tells Acosta that the attorney rep for the victims be instructed that “[t]he details regarding the United States’s investigation of this matter and its resolution with Mr. Epstein is confidential. You may not make public statements regarding this matter.”


18/ Epstein attorney thanks Acosta for their October 12 meeting "in which you...assured me that your Office would not...contact any of the identified individuals, potential witnesses, or potential civil claimants and their respective counsel in this matter.”


19/ Epstein agreed to plead guilty to state charges, and FBI agents tell Jane Doe 1 in Oct 2007 "that Epstein would plead guilty to state charges, he would be required to register as a sex offender for life, and he had made certain concessions related to the payment of damages."


20/ Jane Doe 1 says they didn't explain the NPA was signed. Her "understanding was that the federal investigation would

21/ At the end of November, the Assistant US Attorney prepares a letter to send the victims noting their "statutory obligation to notify the victims about Epstein’s plea to state charges that was part of the NPA"


22/ The proposed letter noted that because Epstein’s plea of guilty to state charges was “part of the resolution of the federal investigation,” the victims were “entitled to be present and to make a statement under oath at the state sentencing.”


23/ This was not acceptable to Epstein's attorneys. 11/29/07, they sent a letter to Acosta "objecting to the proposed victim notification letter, stating that it is inappropriate for any letter to be sent to the victims before Epstein entered his plea or had been sentenced."


24/ 11/30/07, Acosta writes to Epstein atty Ken Starr: “I am directing our prosecutors not to issue victim notification letters until this Friday at 5 p.m., to provide you with time to review these options with your client.”

Ultimately NO letters to victims were sent in Dec 07


25/ Jan 08, Epstein "sought higher level review" within DOJ for his deal.

The FBI tells Jane Doe 1 & Jane Doe 2 the "case is currently under investigation. This can be a lengthy process and we request your continued patience while we conduct a thorough investigation.” ...


26/ Jane Doe 1 still believed "the Government would contact her before reaching any final resolution" and "she wanted to be consulted by prosecutors before any resolution."


27/ June 30, 2008, Epstein enters a guilty plea to "violations of Florida statutes forbidding the solicitation of minors to engage in prostitution and felony solicitation of prostitution.” Jane Doe 1 thought the US Attorney was still investigating and pursuing her case.


28/ July 9, 2008, U.S. Attorney Acosta's Office "sent victim notification letters to Jane Doe 1" and other victims of Epstein. The notification "did not provide the full terms of the NPA."

You get the point by now, I assume.


29/ The judge: "it is undisputed that the Government entered into a NPA with Epstein without conferring with Petitioners during its negotiation and signing. Instead, the Government sent letters to the victims requesting their 'patience' with the investigation ...


30/"..even after the Government entered into the NPA. At a bare minimum, the CVRA required the Government to inform Petitioners that it intended to enter into an agreement not to prosecute Epstein."


31/ The judge goes on to say the US Attorney's office CONCEALED the NPA and "mislead the victims to believe that federal prosecution was still a possibility. When the Government gives information to victims, it cannot be misleading."


32/You can read the whole document here, courtesy @Buzzfeed


33/ Why did Epstein get such a cozy deal? And even if one disagrees with Judge Marra and sides with then-US Attorney Acosta's office that they didn't HAVE to let the victims know -- why DIDN'T they? Why bend over backwards for a pedophile over the rights of his victims?
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