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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

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Jeffrey Epstein prosecutor Alexander Acosta is grilled over plea deal at budget hearing

April 03, 2019 08:37 PM, Updated April 04, 2019 08:09 AM
The story behind a Palm Beach sex offender’s remarkable deal

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 | Julie K. Brown
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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 | Julie K. Brown
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Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta faced congressional scrutiny Wednesday over whether he is able to safeguard children from illegal labor practices and combat human trafficking, as several lawmakers grilled him over a lenient plea deal he gave to a wealthy New York businessman suspected of operating a child sex trafficking ring.

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Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta testifies Wednesday, April 3, 2019, in Washington during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Labor Department budget for Fiscal Year 2020. He was also questioned on the Jeffrey Epstein case involving sex abuse of underage girls. He handled the case while U.S. attorney for Southern Florida. Al Drago Getty Images
Acosta, in his first appearance before lawmakers since the scandal over the plea intensified after a series of articles in the Miami Herald called Perversion of Justice, appeared before a budget appropriations subcommittee, ostensibly to testify about the Labor Department’s 2020 budget. The budget calls for a 10 percent cut in programs affecting millions of American workers, as well as rollbacks in protections for those suffering from disabilities, a reduction in prison re-entry programs and an easing of restrictions on corporations that fail to pay minimum wages.

Acosta defended the cuts, saying the department’s agenda provides “greater investment in programs that work, eliminates programs that do not, and generally bolsters opportunities for working Americans through common-sense reforms.’’

Democratic lawmakers were concerned about a number of program cuts. Among them: a significant decrease in programs that combat human trafficking.

That opened the door for several of them to question Acosta about a sex-trafficking case he handled when he was a federal prosecutor in Miami a decade ago.

“This is not the first time you have ignored human trafficking,’’ said Massachusetts Democrat Katherine Clark.

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Katherine Clark is a Democratic U.S. representative from Massachusetts.
Acosta, while U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, helped orchestrate an unusually light plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein, a politically connected New York hedge fund manager accused in 2005 of molesting and sexually assaulting dozens of girls, mostly ages 13 to 16, at his mansion in Palm Beach.

Instead of going to prison like most sex offenders in Florida, Epstein was given federal immunity and was allowed to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court. A number of other people involved in his operation were also immunized and never charged.

He served 13 months in the county jail. But had Acosta prosecuted him on sex-trafficking charges, Epstein could have gone to prison for the rest of his life.

In February of this year, a federal judge ruled that the deal that Acosta arranged was improper because federal prosecutors failed to comply with the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. It is not clear what happens next.

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Lois Frankel, a U.S. representative from West Palm Beach, said at a congressional subcommittee hearing on April 3, 2019, in Washington that many in her community are upset with Alexander Acosta’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case.
The deal, signed in 2007, was done in secret, and it was sealed so that no one could know how many girls Epstein abused or who else was involved in his scheme. Moreover, Acosta’s staff agreed to demands by Epstein’s lawyers that the victims not be made aware of the federal non-prosecution agreement until after it was signed and executed.

“The judge found you broke the law, Mr. Acosta, when you chose not to tell the victims about this deal and you gave them the impression that the investigation was ongoing,’’ said Clark at the hearing. “Was the judge right?’’

Acosta attempted to pivot, but Clark continued. “I asked you a yes or no question,’’ she demanded.

Rep. Lois Frankel, a Democrat whose constituents are in Palm Beach, quizzed Acosta about how it was that a sex abuser got off so easy.

“Many people in my community are upset that you allowed a sexual predator on the loose,’’ Frankel said. She is among a group of lawmakers who have asked for Acosta to resign. The Department of Justice is investigating the case to determine whether Acosta and other prosecutors committed any wrongdoing.

Acosta has never said why the deal was kept under wraps. At the hearing Wednesday, Acosta told lawmakers what he has repeatedly said for years: The deal ensured Epstein went to jail and had to register as a sex offender.

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U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Washington Republican, questions Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta as he testifies Wednesday in Washington during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Labor Department budget. Al Drago Getty Images
“Let me just say I understand the frustration, but if the state prosecuted him, he was going to get off entirely …it was the work of our office that resulted in him going to jail and it was the work of our office that made it so the world was put on notice that he is a sex offender.’’

One person involved in the case, who didn’t get the notice, however, was Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, who ran the jail. In his first comments on the controversial case, Bradshaw, in a wide-raging interview on Miami’s WLRN last week, said Epstein met the criteria for a liberal work release program, which meant he spent very little time in jail.

He was allowed to leave the county jail six days a week, and have his private driver take him to his office in downtown West Palm Beach, where he spent up to 12 hours a day.

“All we did was house him,’’ Bradshaw told Luis Hernandez, host of the station’s Sundial program. “He met the criteria for work release. He was not adjudicated as a violent sex offender — he wasn’t even adjudicated as a sex offender.’’

At the end of the congressional hearing, Republican Tom Cole, the ranking member of the committee, commended Acosta for the work he has done as labor secretary.

“You’re a person of great integrity and great skill…you have more than done your job,’’ Cole said.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Apr 12, 2019 10:47 am

DA knew Jeffrey Epstein was a dangerous pedophile when arguing for leniency
By Susan Edelman and Rebecca Rosenberg April 11, 2019 | 8:20pm | Updated

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The Manhattan DA’s office had graphic and detailed evidence of pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s depravity when a prosecutor inexplicably argued for leniency during his 2011 sex offender registry hearing, The Post has learned.

In advance of the hearing, then-deputy chief of Sex Crimes, Jennifer Gaffney, had been given a confidential state assessment that deemed Epstein to be highly dangerous and likely to keep preying on young girls, the DA’s office admitted in its own appellate brief eight months after the hearing.

The brief has been sealed since 2011, but The Post obtained it Thursday after suing to get it unsealed.

It describes a state assessment’s findings that Epstein should be monitored in New York as a level three offender — reserved for the most dangerous.

In making its assessment, the NY state Board of Examiners of Sex Offenders evaluated the sworn, corroborated accounts of numerous young girls who had been lured into Epstein’s Palm Beach, Fla., compound in 2005 and 2006.

Girls aged 14 to 17 years old were recruited and paid $200 to $1,000 to give Epstein erotic massages that included sexual contact, intercourse and rape, Palm Beach cops found.

Epstein pleaded guilty in Palm Beach to abusing just one of these young victims, and was required to register as a sex offender in New York since he had an Upper East Side home.

Manhattan prosecutors were aware the state board had assigned Epstein a risk assessment of 130, a number that is “solidly above the 110 qualifying number for level three,” with “absolutely no basis for downward departure,” the brief notes.

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Nevertheless, Gaffney argued that he should be labeled a level one offender, the least restrictive, which would keep him off the online database.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ruth Pickholz sided with the board and against Gaffney in designating Epstein a level three offender. Epstein appealed, and the DA’s change-of-heart brief agreeing that Epstein deserved the highest level of monitoring was filed in opposition to that appeal.

The appellate division ultimately upheld that Epstein be monitored as a level three offender, and he remains on the registry.

“Our prosecutor made a mistake,” Danny Frost, spokesman for DA Cyrus Vance Jr., told The Post in December, when news broke that Epstein’s sweetheart Palm Beach deal had buried evidence he had allegedly abused some 80 girls and young women.

Reached late Thursday, Frost declined to say who above Gaffney might have approved her decision to go easy on Epstein. Vance’s office has insisted that he was unaware of the sex-offender registry hearing at the time.

Gaffney could not immediately be reached for comment.

Additional reporting by Priscilla DeGregory and Laura Italiano
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby RocketMan » Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:11 am

210 buckaroos for third-row seats in the balcony. These calcified establishment hacks have no shame whatsoever. And interviewed by PAUL BEGALA. :mrgreen: 8)

And what is that thing Hillary is encased in...? Questions, questions...

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Only a heckler can improve an evening with the money-grabbing Clintons

Coverage of this snoozefest was typically respectful and anodyne, yet the most exciting moment of the night made little if any news. Not quite halfway through the event, a man in the front row stood up and interrupted.

“Bill, this is boring!” he yelled. As he tried asking his question — “Why don’t you talk about — ” Hillary immediately began talking over him, saying that the “important political conversations” they were trying to have could be difficult, especially when interrupted by such “agent provocateurs.”

“Jeffrey Epstein!” shouted the man.


Oh, the irony.

The heckler was, of course, swiftly hauled away, and the conversation returned to Bill talking about the good old days when he was president, telling such surely apocryphal tales as bringing together two veterans, each missing one leg, and a “formidable” overweight black lesbian activist — the veterans later telling Bill, with tears in their eyes, that they had more in common with this woman than they ever would have thought.


Sounds like an absolutely rivering evening full of politico-philosophical insight....

What about the possibility that Hillary, incredibly, still thinks she has a shot at 2020? Perhaps she’s hoping the so-called circular firing squad takes out every and any front-runner. Despite her recent declaration that she won’t be running for president again, as we well know — you can never trust a Clinton. She still thinks the election was stolen from her.

And so they plod on, for fun, profit and maybe more, refusing to literally cede the stage as today’s Democratic party tries to leave the Clintons where they belong: firmly in the past.


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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Sat Apr 13, 2019 11:21 am

The Women’s Caucus is looking to bring Acosta and Epstein’s alleged victims into a hearing room to get the full story, Frankel told me. Democrats also haven’t ruled out an Oversight hearing sometime down the road.
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Senate Democrats ask DOJ for findings of probe into Acosta's conduct in Epstein case

The request reflects concerns among Democrats that the administration might try to quash the findings of Acosta's handling of the controversial case.

April 12, 2019, 3:10 PM CDT
By Heidi Przybyla and Julia Ainsley

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are demanding the Department of Justice disclose the full results of an investigation into whether U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is guilty of “professional misconduct” in his handling of a sex crime prosecution against billionaire Jeffrey Epstein over a decade ago.

In a letter obtained by NBC News, Sens. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., are asking the DOJ to “make public all findings” from its probe into Acosta’s handling, as a former U.S. attorney, of a plea agreement in the Epstein case. The agreement allowed the wealthy financier and philanthropist to plead guilty to lesser charges in state court rather than face federal sex trafficking charges involving more than three dozen underage girls.

Acosta was the U.S. attorney for South Florida in 2007, when federal prosecutors struck a deal that allowed Epstein to plead guilty to two felony charges in state court and ruling out federal charges.

The letter reflects concern on Capitol Hill that the department may not be planning a full public disclosure of all of the details of a highly controversial case involving a Trump Cabinet official — the latest example, many Democrats contend, of an administration that is not committed to transparency around investigations involving its own.

Kaine and Murray note that officials at the DOJ had indicated they would share its results “as appropriate” and “consistent with past practices,” while not committing to sharing a full version with the public. And while they acknowledged DOJ policies that “substantially restrict” public disclosure of its records in general, they contend that standard should not apply to Acosta.

“There must be legitimate oversight by Congress and answers for survivors and the public, particularly when those records concern a present Cabinet official,” the two wrote.

Jeffrey Epstein in 2005.Sipa via AP file
Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb, in February initially called for an investigation, after the Miami Herald published a series on Epstein, which raised questions about Acosta’s signing of a non-prosecution agreement despite prosecutors’ drafting of an indictment.

Sasse’s letter prompted a response from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd, acknowledging that the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility was investigating Acosta for professional misconduct.

Typically that office is used to discipline federal attorneys, not to prosecute them.

A spokesman for the Justice Department declined to comment on the letter from Murray and Kaine.

“The investigation is ongoing, and as we indicated in the February 6 response to Senator Sasse, we will share the results of OPR’s results at the conclusion of its investigation as appropriate. Because the matter is ongoing, it would not be appropriate to comment further,” said Wyn Hornbuckle, a Justice Department spokesman.

The demand from Murray and Kaine comes in the wake of Attorney General William Barr’s testimony before Congress this week regarding the Mueller report on the Trump campaign and Russia.

Barr has said he will share the report in the coming days. But he has declined to seek court approval to give Congress access to the full version of the report and has, so far, rejected Democrats demands to see classified portions of the report.

Acosta’s role in the Epstein matter came under increased scrutiny after the Herald reported on a judge’s ruling in February that Acosta and other prosecutors had violated federal law by failing to consult with Epstein’s victims before agreeing to the deal.

Other Trump allies are also implicated in the story. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who has been a steady defender of Trump on television, has been accused by attorneys for the victims of having sex with underage girls before serving on the legal team that helped broker the Epstein agreement. Dershowitz has adamantly denied the charges.

Lawyers for victims who were sexually abused as minors have formally demanded that the government vacate Epstein’s plea deal and reopen his sex trafficking investigation.

Both Kaine and Murray are on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Kaine pressed Acosta on the issue during his nomination hearing and ultimately opposed the nomination citing Acosta’s involvement in the case.

Julia Ainsley is a national security reporter for NBC News.
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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Apr 16, 2019 7:16 am


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I’m told a major lawsuit will be filed today, containing new allegations, involving accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Stay tuned.



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Re: Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Postby seemslikeadream » Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:21 pm

Giuffre claims in the lawsuit that Dershowitz, 80, knew about and participated in a sex-trafficking operation run by Epstein and Maxwell, and that she was forced to have sex with Dershowitz and other prominent, wealthy men when she was underage.






New Jeffrey Epstein accuser goes public; defamation lawsuit targets Dershowitz
April 16, 2019 04:23 PM, Updated 2 minutes ago

The story behind a Palm Beach sex offender’s remarkable deal

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 | Julie K. Brown
A new victim has gone public in the Jeffrey Epstein case, filing a sworn affidavit in federal court in New York Tuesday, saying that she was sexually assaulted and her then-15-year-old sister molested by Epstein and his companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 1996.

Maria Farmer, then 26, claims she was employed by Epstein, a multimillionaire financier who lived in a vast mansion on New York’s Upper East side, and that she frequently saw “school-age girls’’ wearing uniforms come into the mansion and go upstairs. She was told that the girls were auditioning for modeling work, according to her affidavit.

Then an art student in New York, Farmer said she reported her assault to New York police and the FBI in 1996. FBI documents released April 1 make a reference to Farmer having been interviewed in 2006 or 2007. However, Farmer, now 49, said the FBI did not take any action against Epstein and Maxwell.

“To my knowledge, I was the first person to report Maxwell and Epstein to the FBI. It took a significant amount of bravery for me to make that call because I knew how incredibly powerful and influential both Epstein and Maxwell were, particularly in the art community,’’ she wrote.

Farmer’s affidavit is one of 15 exhibits attached to a defamation complaint filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Epstein’s victims, against Alan Dershowitz, one Epstein’s most vocal and powerful attorneys.

Giuffre claims in the lawsuit that Dershowitz, 80, knew about and participated in a sex-trafficking operation run by Epstein and Maxwell, and that she was forced to have sex with Dershowitz and other prominent, wealthy men when she was underage.

Dershowitz has railed against the allegations for years, maintaining that he has never met Giuffre. He also says he has documents and other evidence that prove she is lying.

Farmers’ affidavit, and others attached to the lawsuit, are meant to bolster Giuffre’s case that Dershowitz has maliciously spread false information on behalf of Epstein in order to intimidate and silence her and other victims, according to the lawsuit.

“No sensible person looks forward to litigation,’’ Giuffre said in a statement. “And I know that standing up for myself and others will cause Mr. Dershowitz and Mr. Epstein to redouble their efforts to destroy me and my reputation. But I can no longer sit by and not respond. As my complaint shows, my abusers have sought to conceal their guilt behind a curtain of lies. My complaint calls for the accounting to which I, and their other victims, are entitled.”

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Ghislaine Maxwell was sued for slander after calling Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers, a liar. Maxwell, a close associate of Epstein, sought to have documents from the court case remain sealed.
Dershowitz said he welcomed the opportunity to finally prove in court that Giuffre is lying.

“Virtually everything in the complaint is false, and I will be able to disprove all of this in a court of law. I have told the truth throughout and I’ll be able to prove it...I never met her, I never heard of her,’’ Dershowitz said.

In recent months, Dershowitz has waged a public relations war against Giuffre, her lawyers and the Miami Herald, which published a series about Epstein in November. The series, “Perversion of Justice,” focused on how the former U.S. attorney in Miami, now Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, brokered a deal giving Epstein federal immunity, despite overwhelming evidence that he had sexually assaulted dozens of girls. The series mentioned Dershowitz, who represented Epstein during the negotiations, as well as Giuffre’s sexual allegations against the Harvard lawyer.

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Friend of Presidents, the ultra-rich and the elite of Wall Street’s bankers Jeff Epstein remains an enigma to many in the world of finance despite handling portfolios estimated to be worth over $15 billion.He is seen here at left in conversation with Professor Alan Dershowitz one of America’s best-known legal experts. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images) Rick Friedman Corbis via Getty Images
Giuffre’s lawsuit does not provide evidence of Giuffre having sex with Dershowitz, or provide dates that the relations allegedly happened. But it does provide a chapter-and-verse history of Dershowitz’s public statements and attempts to take each statement he’s made and discredit them.

For example, Dershowitz has said that he has never seen any underage girls when he visited Epstein at the financier’s various homes in Palm Beach, New Mexico and New York. But Farmer, who now lives in Kentucky, claims that one of her duties working for Epstein was to staff the front door to his New York estate and to keep track of visitors.

“On a number of occasions I witnessed Dershowitz at the NY mansion going upstairs at the same time there were young girls under the age of 18 who were present upstairs in the house,’’ she said, asserting that Dershowitz was so comfortable he would walk into the mansion and go directly upstairs.

Dershowitz said that would have been impossible because he did not meet Epstein until August of 1996 on Martha’s Vineyard.

“I was never upstairs in Jeffrey Epstein’s apartment, never ever,’’ Dershowitz said. “This is typical of the complaints in this case by the Boies’ firm, very sloppy. I would not have felt comfortable going upstairs because I didn’t know [Epstein] very well then.’’

Farmer did not say when she saw Dershowitz or if she saw him in the presence of any young girls. But the lawsuit points to at least one witness — former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez — who did see Dershowitz in the presence of young girls and women at Epstein’s mansion in Palm Beach. Rodriguez was prosecuted by the FBI for obstructing justice when he tried to sell Epstein’s “little black book’’ listing the hedge fund manager’s friends, business associates, celebrity guests and a long list of female masseuses. Rodriguez died in prison.

Another woman, Sarah Ransome, also submitted an affidavit with the lawsuit with new details about sex she claims she had with Dershowitz.

Ransome says that she was introduced to Epstein when she was 22 years old and living in New York. She claims that she spent time at Epstein’s mansion and was “lent out’’ by him to his friends for sex. Among those friends was Dershowitz, she said in the affidavit. She alleges she had a three-way sexual encounter with Dershowitz and Nadia Marcinkova, who also worked for Epstein.

“I recall specific, key details of his person and the sex acts and can describe them in the event it becomes necessary to do so,’’ Ransome said in the affidavit.

Dershowitz has publicly denounced both Giuffre’s and Ransome’s accusations, saying that he has been able to “disprove them.’’ It’s not clear, however, whom he has provided proof to, except to Louis J. Freeh, a former FBI director who released a statement in 2016 saying that he had conducted an independent review of Dershowitz’s information and concluded Dershowitz’ evidence contradicted Giuffe’s, and there was no evidence to support her allegations. Giuffre was never interviewed by the Freeh investigators, according to her lawyers.

Dershowitz allowed the Herald review some of the documents that he says he has, but he has not released them for the Herald to substantiate the information that he gathered, including his personal calendars, that he claims prove he could not have been in the locations that Giuffre was during the time period she was with Epstein, from 1999 to 2002.


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In recent months, Dershowitz has alleged that Giuffre’s accusations against him are part of an extortion plot to blackmail an Ohio billionaire, identified in the lawsuit as Les Wexner, the CEO of the Limited Brands, which includes Victoria’s Secret, who was Epstein’s top financial client.

Dershowitz alleges that Giuffre and one of her lawyers, prominent New York attorney David Boies, falsely accused him in order to get Wexner to pay hush money so that Wexner would not be similarly exposed by Giuffre.

But Giuffre has never publicly named Wexner as among those she was forced to have sex with. And in the lawsuit, she said that neither she, nor her laywers, have ever demanded or received money from Wexner, 81. The lawsuit points out that Giuffre’s allegations against Dershowitz predated the time she was represented by Boies and his firm.

Boies’ partners, Joshua Schiller, and Sigrid McCawley, filed the lawsuit on behalf of Giuffre, who lives in Australia.

Efforts to reach Epstein, Wexner and Maxwell for comment were not immediately successful.

Wexner also figures into Farmer’s story. In her affidavit, Farmer claims that during the time she worked for Epstein, the financier arranged for her to work on an art project at Wexner’s Ohio mansion in the summer of 1996. She stayed at the Wexner $47 million 30-room mansion for a time, working on the project, while babysitting her two younger brothers, who were also staying with her at Wexner’s mansion, she said.

One day, Epstein and Maxwell visited, and escorted her into a bedroom, and then proceeded to sexually assault her, she wrote. She said she fled the room and called the local sheriff’s office, but did not get a response. When she tried to leave the property, she said Wexner’s security staff refused to let her leave.


How a teen runaway became one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims

Virginia Roberts was working at Mar-a-Lago when she was recruited to be a masseuse to Palm Beach hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein. She was lured into a life of depravity and sexual abuse.

“I was held against my will for 12 hours until I was ultimately allowed to leave with my father,’’ she said in the affidavit.

During this same time period, she said Epstein took her and her younger sister, then 15, to a movie in New York, where he allegedly rubbed her younger sister in a sexual manner. He then flew the 15-year-old to his ranch in New Mexico, promising her mother that he would help with her education, Farmer said.

Instead, Epstein and Maxwell directed her sister to take off all her clothes and get on a massage table, where they touched her inappropriately, Farmer said. Epstein subsequently flew the sister to Thailand to study, and Farmer did not learn until later what happened to her at the ranch.

Afterward, she said Epstein and Maxwell called her multiple times, threatening her. “Maxwell and Epstein contacted my art clients and individuals in the art community in an effort to ruin my art career,’’ she said, adding that they were successful in shutting down any art-related opportunities.

Journalist Vicky Ward interviewed Farmer, her sister and their mother in 2002 for Vanity Fair, but the interviews were stricken from the piece before publication. In a 2015 piece Ward wrote for the Daily Beast, the writer said that Epstein had pressured Vanity Fair’s then-editor, Graydon Carter, not to publish the allegation. She said he also attacked Ward and tried to discredit the mother and her daughters, who were never named.

Farmer said she finally came forward with the court filing to support Giuffre in hopes that Epstein and Maxwell will be prosecuted.

“I have struggled throughout my entire life as a direct result of Epstein and Maxwell’s actions against me and my hope is that they will be held accountable for their crimes. While I am still afraid, I am coming forward because I think it is so important to do so,’’ she said.

The affidavit does not say what her sister was studying in Thailand, but Giuffre was also flown by Epstein to Thailand in 2002 to study massage therapy. It was then that Giuffre met her future husband and fled with him to Australia.


AG nominee Barr pledges to look into handling of Epstein case

Sen. Ben Sasse questioned attorney general nominee William Barr about the Jeffrey Epstein case on January 15, 2019, getting the nominee to commit to having the Department of Justice look into the handling of that case if confirmed.

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The lawsuit says that Giuffre first told others about sex with Dershowitz at the time it allegedly happened, and in 2009, although the suit doesn’t say whom she told. In 2011, Giuffre was represented by lawyers Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell, who wrote Dershowitz to inform him that witnesses had placed him at various locations with Epstein while Epstein was with minors who were subsequently identified as victims of sexual assault, the suit says.

The lawyers were concerned in part because Dershowitz had been a prominent lawyer for Epstein who had assailed some of Epstein’s victims in 2006 in an attempt to impugn their credibility. Also, they found it curious that Epstein’s deal included a blanket immunity for co-conspirators of his operation who were not named.

The lawsuit claims that Dershowitz masterminded the deal in order to give himself immunity, an allegation that Dershowitz expressly denies.

Giuffre’s sexual allegations against Dershowitz became public in 2014 as part of a court filing by Edwards and Cassell. Dershowitz publicly called for the disbarment of the two lawyers, leading them to file a defamation suit against Dershowitz which was subsequently settled, with Dershowitz paying the two lawyers a substantial amount of money, the suit says. Dershowitz falsely claimed that he was exonerated, when in fact, the settlement was reached in Edwards’ and Cassells’ favor, according to the new lawsuit.

Additionally, Dershowitz tried and failed to get Giuffre to issue a statement that she had been mistaken, the lawsuit asserts.

In December 2015, Dershowitz wrote an email to Boies, who began representing Guiffre in 2015. A copy of the email, attached to the lawsuit, shows that Dershowitz suggested that Guiffre submit a statement saying that she had possibly erred when she identified Dershowitz.

“We should be aiming at a short simple statement such as: ‘the events at issue occurred approximately 15 years ago when I was a teenager. Although I believed then and continued to believe that [Dershowitz] was the person with whom I had sex, recent developments raise the possibility that this may be a case of mistaken identification,’’’ Dershowitz suggested in the email.

During that same time period, November and December 2015, Dershowitz also engaged in several conversations with Boies, as part of an attempt to settle the defamation claim brought by Cassell and Edwards. Dershowitz recorded some of those calls, and played excerpts for the Herald.

The recordings are difficult to decipher, with static in places that seem to omit the context of some of the conversations. But a transcript supplied by Dershowitz appears to show Boies conceding that Giuffre was mistaken in identifying Dershowitz. Boies says Dershowitz taped him without his permission and that he took his comments out of context.

“He conflated the conversations, and they are not in the order that they happened,’’ Boies said, stating that he was merely assuring Dershowitz that, if they found evidence that Giuffre’s recollections were mistaken, they would have come to an agreement to issue the statement he wanted.

Ultimately, Boies said, they found her to be truthful, and she passed a lie detector test.

“Dershowitz...played and described excerpts from those tapes out of context to reporters to try to make it appear that Ms. Roberts’ lawyer’s hypothetical comments, and characterizations of Dershowitz’s assertions represented that lawyer’s conclusions,’’ the suit says.

To further rebut Dershowitz’s recordings, a sworn affidavit is included from another attorney who said that he was present when Dershowitz misconstrued what Boies was saying. One of the suggestions that Dershowitz proffered was that Giuffre had confused the Harvard professor with another academic, whom Dershowitz named, claiming the professor looked similar to himself. Giuffre, however, was shown a photo of that professor, and was adamant that she had not confused him with Dershowitz, the lawsuit says.

“Mr. Dershowitz expressed to me that he believed he was making progress in convincing Mr. Boies that [Giuffre] was mistaken in identifying Mr. Dershowitz with someone with whom she had sex. I told Mr. Dershowitz that I thought he was overly optimistic and reading things into what Mr. Boies was saying and hearing what he wanted to hear,’’ wrote the lawyer, David S. Stone, a senior managing partner of Boies’ firm who previously worked with Dershowitz on the Claus Von Bulow murder case.

The suit also said another woman, Sarah Ransome, had accused Epstein and Maxwell of trafficking her for sex to Dershowitz and others, and that Dershowitz also tried to discredit Ransome similar to how he had Giuffre.

“After Dershowitz’s claimed proof of evidence collapsed, and the evidence of his guilt grew, Roberts’ lawyers’ told Dershowitz in writing that they ‘had discovered evidence inconsistent with some of [your] representations,’ noting that some of his travel records were incomplete, and therefore were not adequate to show he could not have been in the same place as Giuffre during the time she was working for Epstein, the lawsuit said.

Giuffe claims that Dershowitz is still working on behalf of Epstein, who is using Dershowitz to intimidate victims from coming forward, fearing a new federal investigation, the suit says.

In February, a federal judge ruled that the non-prosecution agreement Epstein received was illegally brokered by Acosta and other prosecutors in violation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. As a result, the deal is being reviewed by the Justice Department, which has also opened a probe into Acosta’s handling of the Epstein case.

Under the plea deal, Epstein pleaded guilty to two prostitution charges and was sentenced to 18 months in the county jail. He served 13 months, but spent most of his sentence in work release, which allowed him to leave the Palm Beach jail for up to 12 hours a day, six days a week, to go to his office in West Palm Beach.
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Re: Trump accused of rape of 13-year old at Epstein party

Postby BenDhyan » Thu Jul 04, 2019 8:15 am

BenDhyan » Thu Jul 04, 2019 6:23 pm wrote:
Jeffrey Epstein Documents Could Expose Powerful Politicians, Businessmen

Jul 3, 2019, 02:31pm

A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered that 167 documents in a lawsuit that alleges famously well-connected financier Jeffrey Epstein participated in a sex-trafficking ring should be unsealed—and that many of his powerful friends could be named.

In its 27-page decision, the court cited the public’s right to access the case information outweighed the privacy of certain individuals, “including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well‐known Prime Minister, and other world leaders.”

Virginia Guiffre (now Roberts) filed the lawsuit against Ghislane Maxwell, alleging that she had used her as part of a sex trafficking network of underage girls to Epstein and a number of his famous friends, including his lawyer Alan Dershowitz and Prince Andrew. Both men denied the accusations.

Dershowitz has supported unsealing the documents, according to the Daily Beast.

The documents will not be immediately available, as anonymous individuals involved in the case have two weeks to file appeals.

The court advised the documents be read carefully. “We therefore urge the media to exercise restraint in covering potentially defamatory allegations, and we caution the public to read such accounts with discernment,” wrote the court in its decision.

Key background: Epstein had previously been charged in 2007 in a 53-page indictment. As the Miami Herald revealed in its investigative series “Perversion of Justice,” Epstein managed to escape all federal charges through a plea deal that gave him and all of his co-conspirators immunity, with all documents being sealed. Epstein ended up pleading guilty to one state prostitution charge in Florida. He then registered as a sex offender and paid unspecified restitution to three dozen victims identified by the FBI.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/07/03/jeffrey-epstein-documents-could-expose-powerful-politicians-businessmen/#409cd8395ac9

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Re: Trump accused of rape of 13-year old at Epstein party

Postby Harvey » Thu Jul 04, 2019 1:19 pm

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Re: Trump accused of rape of 13-year old at Epstein party

Postby Iamwhomiam » Fri Jul 05, 2019 11:55 am

Dershowitz has supported unsealing the documents, according to the Daily Beast.


Sure he does, believe him, but why not read his amicus brief supporting the release of the sealed records?

I doubt one can be found. Perhaps someday we'll learn who originally requested the case files to be sealed.
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Re: Trump accused of rape of 13-year old at Epstein party

Postby BenDhyan » Sat Jul 06, 2019 9:56 pm

Things are moving again...

Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Sex Trafficking of Minors

Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on Saturday and will appear in New York court on Monday to be charged with sex trafficking, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

Pervaiz Shallwani, Kate Briquelet, Harry Siegel Updated 07.06.19

Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was arrested for allegedly sex trafficking dozens of minors in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005, and will appear in court in New York on Monday, according to three law enforcement sources. The arrest, by the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force, comes about 12 years after the 66-year-old financier essentially got a slap on the wrist for allegedly molesting dozens of underage girls in Florida.

For more than a decade, Epstein’s alleged abuse of minors has been the subject of lawsuits brought by victims, investigations by local and federal authorities, and exposés in the press. But despite the attention cast on his alleged sex crimes, the hedge-funder has managed to avoid any meaningful jail time, let alone federal charges.

The new indictment—which, according to two sources, will be unsealed Monday in Manhattan federal court—will reportedly allege that Epstein sexually exploited dozens of underage girls in a now-familiar scheme: paying them cash for "massages" and then molesting or sexually abusing them in his Upper East Side mansion or his palatial residence in Palm Beach. Epstein will be charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors—which could put him away for a maximum of 45 years. The case is being handled by the Public Corruption Unit of the Southern District of New York, with assistance from the district's human-trafficking officials and the FBI.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-of-minors-source

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Re: Trump accused of rape of 13-year old at Epstein party

Postby BenDhyan » Sat Jul 06, 2019 11:35 pm

Hmmm, interesting tweets...

@Techno_Fog

Wait. Was pedophile Jeffrey Epstein an informant for Mueller's FBI?

From the 5/24/18 FBI Vault release: "Epstein has also provided information to the FBI as agreed upon."

Is that why he escaped serious charges for molesting over twenty girls?

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The full thread is here.... https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/999708976936767488
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Re: Trump accused of rape of 13-year old at Epstein party

Postby Belligerent Savant » Sun Jul 07, 2019 12:24 am

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^^^^^^^^

Cross-post that references the same Twitter account, back in February:

Belligerent Savant » Wed Feb 06, 2019 9:59 pm wrote:.
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:
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/9 ... 6936767488



We shall see just how much exposure this gets in the press this time around, and if any of it results in lifting the lid on 'Lolita Express' escapades (beyond insinuations and aspersions).
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Re: Trump accused of rape of 13-year old at Epstein party

Postby BenDhyan » Sun Jul 07, 2019 12:38 am

Missed that Belligerent Savant, thank you. I think this time he will not get off so easy, we shall see.
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Re: Trump accused of rape of 13-year old at Epstein party

Postby thrulookingglass » Sun Jul 07, 2019 8:41 am

Does anyone see a gross disparity between the schadenfreude deluge coverage of sex crimes in the media and the complete lack of reporting on the atrocities of war? Just skews better with the audience to see some rich banker's horrific sexual appetites versus a predator drone bombing a wedding party in Yemen.
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