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by 82_28 » Mon Aug 12, 2019 3:54 pm
by seemslikeadream » Mon Aug 12, 2019 4:03 pm
fluff designed to rot my brain
ABC News has observed federal agents, including FBI and CBP, and NYPD officers at the dock and on the grounds of Little Saint James, Jeffrey Epstein’s island home in the US Virgin Islands. Federal prosecutors had said investigation would continue despite Epstein's death
https://twitter.com/AaronKatersky/statu ... 9018855424
French minister demands investigation into Epstein's activities in France
FILE PHOTO: Marlene Schiappa, French Junior Minister for Gender Equality, speaks during the questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris, France, November 27, 2018. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
PARIS (Reuters) - Marlene Schiappa, France’s gender equality minister, called on Monday for an investigation into the activities in France of Jeffrey Epstein, the U.S. financier found dead in an apparent suicide while being held on sex-trafficking charges.
“The American investigation has highlighted ties with France. It therefore seems fundamental to us, and for the victims, that an investigation should be opened in France so that all the light is shed on this matter,” Schiappa said in a statement.
Epstein was arrested on July 6 in New Jersey after his private jet landed on a flight from Paris. The New York Times reported that he owned property in the French capital.
Epstein, a well-connected money manager dogged for years by allegations that he sexually abused girls and young women, was found hanging by his neck, according to a source who was not authorized to speak publicly.
“We would like to use this occasion to highlight again our utmost determination to protect young girls from sexual violence and especially from being exploited by criminal networks, and this should result in new measures being announced during the final quarter of this year,” added Schiappa.
Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Richard Lough
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peop ... SKCN1V20RO
by Sounder » Mon Aug 12, 2019 4:56 pm
Or rather, unlike you, we are aware it is completely irrelevant to mention random speculation of this ilk at this time.
by seemslikeadream » Mon Aug 12, 2019 4:59 pm
Wealth of Jeffrey Epstein’s Brother Is Also a Mystery
Mark Epstein’s assets appear to be smaller than those of the deceased financier, but hard to assess
Mark Epstein at an event in New York in 2016. PHOTO: PAUL BRUINOOGE/PATRICK MCMULLAN/GETTY IMAGES
By Gretchen Morgenson
Aug. 12, 2019 6:52 am ET
Jeffrey Epstein claimed a net worth of $550 million when he was asking to be released on bail from the jail where he was found dead from an apparent suicide on Saturday.
Lawyers for women who say the New York financier sexually abused them believe there is more money hidden away. They will likely look to offshore bank accounts, Mr. Epstein’s close associates and to his only surviving close relative, his brother Mark Epstein, for additional assets as they explore potential civil cases against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate.
“We’re just getting started,” said Lisa Bloom, a lawyer for some of the alleged victims, in a tweet Saturday after the 66-year-old Mr. Epstein was found dead.
Mr. Epstein last month pleaded not guilty to sex-trafficking counts stemming from what federal prosecutors alleged was a yearslong scheme to procure and sexually abuse dozens of girls. He faced up to 45 years in prison if convicted.
During a March 2010 deposition in a civil lawsuit brought by two alleged sex-abuse victims, Jeffrey Epstein declined to answer a question about whether he transferred assets to defraud potential creditors, citing his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, court documents show.
The sources behind Jeffrey Epstein’s vast wealth have long been a mystery, and his assets have been housed in partnerships that sometimes obscure ownership. Mark’s wealth appears to be tiny by comparison, an asset search shows, but also hard to assess. A lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
Last month, when Jeffrey Epstein was seeking bail, his brother offered to put up a Florida condo valued at a modest $100,000. Yet last fall, Mark Epstein and at least one co-owner donated an 80-foot luxury yacht once valued at nearly $1 million to a small nonprofit.
At the time of the donation, Mr. Epstein was facing a $67,261 federal tax lien, records show. The lien’s disposition has not been recorded. As he was facing other liens a decade earlier, he donated at least $500,000 to the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, his alma mater, where he became chairman of the board of trustees. Tax liens can be signs of financial distress or of strategies rejected by tax authorities.
The brothers are linked financially through a 200-unit condominium on Manhattan’s Upper East Side once owned by Jeffrey Epstein’s most lucrative client, retail magnate Leslie Wexner. The company that bought the building in the early 1990s is a former affiliate of J. Epstein & Co., Jeffrey Epstein’s investment firm, real-estate records and New York state filings show. Mark Epstein was once listed in corporate records as president of that company.
Asked to discuss his financial interests and how they intersected with his brother’s, Mark Epstein, 65 years old, declined. “I don’t have time to talk about it and I don’t see any purpose in talking about it with anybody,” he told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
The Journal also sent him a list of questions, which he declined to answer. In a subsequent email, Mr. Epstein said: “As a private independent businessman I don’t feel the need to share any of the information.” In email messages sent after his brother died, he declined to comment.
Mark Epstein told Crain’s New York Business in an article last month that he bought the 16-story condo building on East 66th Street from Mr. Wexner based on a tip from his brother in the early 1990s. At the time, records show, the building carried a mortgage of $7.24 million. A current valuation of the building is almost impossible without knowing the terms of the building’s rent rolls, said Jonathan Miller, president and chief executive of Miller Samuel Inc., an appraisal firm in New York City.
Real-estate records show the building and mortgage were transferred from an Ohio limited partnership affiliated with Mr. Wexner, the founder of retailer L Brands Inc.
The Journal could find no documents detailing Mark Epstein’s purchase of the building. Records show the condominium’s owner since 1991 as Ossa Properties. At that time, Ossa was an affiliate of J. Epstein & Co. according to a New York state charter-school filing and a former employee. In the Crain’s article, Mark Epstein said that a New York state document erred in stating that J. Epstein & Co. and Ossa Properties were affiliated.
But Jonathan Barrett, a managing director at investment firm Luminus Management, who worked at J. Epstein and Ossa from 1992 through 1996, told the Journal through a spokesman that Ossa and J. Epstein & Co. were affiliated. New York City work permits show Anthony Barrett, of Ossa Properties, as owner of 301 E. 66 Street. Anthony Barrett, who is Jonathan’s brother, didn’t return calls seeking comment.
Jeffrey Epstein used some units at the East 66th Street building to house his employees, according to court records. His address book, posted online, included about 25 blacked-out phone numbers for different people in various apartments in the building, which was marked as “Apt. for models.” An entity that owned Jeffrey Epstein’s East 71st Street mansion used an apartment in the East 66th Street building as its mailing address, real-estate records show. “Other than the obvious relationship of being brothers, the only other relationship between Jeffrey and I is as landlord/tenant,” Mark Epstein said in an email.
In 2006, Mark Epstein was cited in a Dun & Bradstreet report as an executive at Ossa Properties. The same year, New York state imposed a lien on Mark Epstein for $8,794; it was subsequently paid. Two years later, federal tax authorities imposed a lien for $18,775 on Mr. Epstein; it was later released.
By 2010, New York City work permits show, the ownership structure of the East 66th Street condominium changed from a partnership to a corporation, a structure than can protect investors from liabilities generated by other shareholders, among other benefits.
Mark Epstein started a number of businesses, including a silk-screen T-shirt company, called Izmo, that he created in 1986, incorporation records show. There was Atelier Enterprises Inc., a charter/leasing company he headed in 1984; Epstein Acquisitions, set up in 1987 and dissolved in 2015; and Saint Model and Talent, incorporated in 2005. He has previously said he began investing in New York real estate in the early 1990s.
By the late 2000s, he became a major donor to Cooper Union, the New York art, architecture and engineering college from which he graduated in 1976. By 2009, he had donated between $500,000 and $999,000 to the school, according to a donor report published by the college. That year, he was named chairman of its board of trustees; he resigned from the board in 2015, following the board’s controversial decision to drop the school’s longstanding policy of full tuition scholarships for all students.
A Cooper Union spokeswoman responded to an email seeking comment about Mr. Epstein by reciting his history with the institution.
The 80-foot yacht, dubbed Izmo, co-owned by Mark Epstein and other partners that were unidentified in an online listing, was docked in Miami until last fall when it was donated to a small marine-science nonprofit.
The yacht, which has three staterooms, an owner’s cabin and spacious decks, according to online promotional listings, was put up for sale in December 2012 for $990,000. An online advertisement posted last May listed it at $600,000. No sale occurred, and Mr. Epstein began offering the yacht to charities, according to a blast email sent out to organizations reviewed by the Journal.
The recipient ended up being the Marine Science and Nautical Training Academy of Charleston, S.C., which is known as Manta. In a Nov. 13, 2018, email, its president, Russell Day, said the nonprofit had been chosen over “many amazing and deserving organizations.” Transformed into a marine-research vessel for high-school and college students, the yacht would ply the waters of the British Virgin Islands, Mr. Day wrote. The Little Saint James, an island owned by Jeffrey Epstein, is in the nearby U.S. Virgin Islands.
Mr. Day, Manta’s president, didn’t return phone calls seeking comment.
—Khadeeja Safdar, Joe Palazzolo, Elisa Cho and Michael Tobin contributed to this article.
Write to Gretchen Morgenson at gretchen.morgenson@wsj.com
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I can see what may comprise *Training*. But swimming, tanning, and lolling about swing sets suggest insufficient Scientific focus and rigor.
This particular cruise seems to have been on a catamaran (possibly the S/V Freedom) with ports of call primarily in the British Virgin Islands.
Hey @gmorgenson, It is correct the non-profit to which #Epstein donated that boat has only a couple of employees & operates out of a private home? It is an approved educ program? What's with the old guy & all of the photos of high school girls and very few boys? Kinda creepy @WSJ
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by seemslikeadream » Mon Aug 12, 2019 6:37 pm
Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself with prison bedsheet: source
By Larry Celona and Bruce Golding August 12, 2019 | 5:07pm | Updated
House Judiciary demands answers on Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide
Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging in his Lower Manhattan jail cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed, The Post has learned.
The convicted pedophile, who was 6 feet tall, apparently killed himself by kneeling toward the floor and strangling himself with the makeshift noose, a law enforcement source said Monday.
Epstein was “unresponsive” when he was discovered in his cell in the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Correctional Center around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, the federal Bureau of Prisons has said.
Staffers attempted to revive him and he was taken to an infirmary inside the lockup, then transported by ambulance to the NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/12/jeffrey-e ... et-source/
A dozen FBI agents raid Jeffrey Epstein's 'Pedophile Island'
FBI agents were seen raiding Jeffrey Epstein's US Virgin Island - Little St. James - on Monday morning and afternoon, exclusive DailyMailTV footage shows
FBI agents were seen raiding Jeffrey Epstein's private US Virgin Island, which has been dubbed 'Pedophile Island', as the sex trafficking probe around the now deceased billionaire intensifies, as exclusive DailyMailTV footage shows the search being carried out.
A large group of FBI officers were seen disembarking speedboats at the pier of Little St James on Monday morning and driving around on golf carts after the 66-year-old was found dead by suicide in his New York jail cell early on Saturday morning.
Other officials with 'FBI' lettering on clear display were later seen overlooking the crystal blue sea from the top of Epstein's remote luxury home off the coast of St Thomas.
The search comes after 2,000 pages of documents detailing the lurid allegations of his sexual abuse of underage girls were unsealed to the public on Friday, adding more fuel to the fire of the government's case of sex trafficking against Epstein.
FBI raids Virgin Island home of Jeffrey Epstein after apparent suicide
FBI agents were seen raiding Jeffrey Epstein's US Virgin Island Little St James on Monday morning and afternoon, exclusive DailyMailTV footage shows
At least a dozen agents were seen disembarking speedboats at the pier and driving around on golf carts
An onlooker, who wanted to remain anonymous and shot the footage, told DailyMailTV: 'I'm on a boat charter with guests. We are the only guests out here at the moment. We were enjoying lunch when we saw over a dozen people getting off their speedboats and landing on the island'
Allegations have been made that underage girls were used as sex slaves and repeatedly abused inside a temple on the island
An onlooker, who asked to remain anonymous and shot the footage, told DailyMailTV: 'I'm on a boat charter with guests. We are the only guests out here at the moment.
'We were enjoying lunch when we saw over a dozen people getting off their speedboats and landing on the island.
'When we looked harder, we could see the FBI logo on the backs of their shirts.
'It didn't take long for us to realize they must be conducting a raid on Epstein's house.'
The home - dubbed 'pedophile island' and 'orgy island' - is at the center of an ongoing sex trafficking probe into the criminal financier.
Allegations have been made that underage girls were used as sex slaves and repeatedly abused inside a temple on the island.
The raid comes days after the 66-year-old was found dead by suicide in his New York jail cell early on Saturday morning
Many members of the community believe that Epstein hid young girls he allegedly enslaved in underground rooms below the temple and other parts of the island. There is no concrete evidence to support that claim.
Sources say Epstein flew the girls into St. Thomas then shuttled them over to his island on a boat named after Ghislaine Maxwell, his ex-girlfriend and his alleged 'madam'. The boat was called Lady Ghislaine.
The former employee said that guests included Victoria's Secret billionaire Les Wexner, who sold Epstein his Upper East Side home in the 1990s.
The staffer said that he had seen Victoria's Secret models on the island.
Whenever Epstein was there, normally for three to four days at a time, women would sunbathe either nude or topless by the pool as he padded around in shorts and flip flops, they said.
One former employee who declined to be identified said Epstein once had five boats and said he saw a handful of young women when he was on Epstein's property but he believed they were older than 18.
A former air traffic controller at the island's airport told Vanity Fair: 'On multiple occasions I saw Epstein exit his helicopter, stand on the tarmac in full view of my tower, and board his private jet with children—female children. One incident in particular really stands out in my mind, because the girls were just so young. They couldn’t have been over 16.'
Epstein doubled his property holdings in January 2016 when he paid $18 million for Great St. James, which is nearby Little St. James a few years back.
That 162-acre property is located next to Little St. James, the 71.5-acre island he purchased in 1998 for $7.95 million.
Epstein had plans for Great St. James to include a barge dock, two homes, cottages, an amphitheater, gardens, a marine electrical cable, solar array and generator, storage building, security building, work shed, machine shop, and an 'underwater office and pool.'
That barge and a few completed structures, as well as construction equipment, are visible in aerial images of the island.
The source added: 'When we looked harder, we could see the FBI logo on the backs of their shirts. It didn't take long for us to realize they must be conducting a raid on Epstein's house'
Allegations have been made that underage girls were used as sex slaves and repeatedly abused inside a temple on the island
Epstein bought the 71.5-acre island in 1998 for $7.95 million
Pedophile Island: The golden dome that formally sat atop Jeffrey Epstein's temple on Little St James is gone in recent photos (domeless temple above)
Hidden messages: The temple has been of great interest to members of the QAnon community, who had been talking about the island long before Epstein's arrest
This work has been done despite the fact that only the construction of a flagpole and repair of cisterns has been approved on the island.
And yet next door, his temple remains domeless.
Epstein had erected 'No Trespassing' signs throughout around almost all of Great St. James due to the area's popularity with tourists.
Local laws make all land below the tide or bush lines public property, so Epstein couldn't legally kick people off those lands, but he was being vigilant about making sure no one wanders onto his property.
He had made Little St. James his primary residence, but in June the helicopter that shuttles the millionaire and his guests to and from the airport was listed for sale online, with an asking price of $1.8 million
Epstein also sold one of his private jets in June. His other was seized when he was arrested in July after landing back on US soil following three-week trip to Paris.
In total, Epstein's properties are valued at close to $150 million.
There is the Paris bolthole where he spent the weeks before returning to the US and getting arrested on the tarmac as his plane touched down at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
The $9 million pied-a-terre is located on one of the nicest blocks in the City of Lights, and Epstein traveled there frequently, often spending a few months at the apartment each summer.
The raid came at the same morning that Attorney General Bill Barr issued a stark warning to Jeffrey Epstein's alleged co-conspirators, telling them they 'should not rest easy'.
While Epstein, left, was the only person charged the Manhattan U.S. Attorney pledged to 'stand for victims' following Epstein's death on Saturday morning. Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, right, is one of those who may find herself in the spotlight
The investigation into Epstein's sex crimes is set to shift its focus following his death to those accused of helping him, in a move that threatens to implicate some of the world's richest, most powerful people.
Speaking at a police event in New Orleans Barr said: 'Let me assure you that this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein. Any co-conspirators should not rest easy.
'The victims deserve justice and they will get it.'
He also slammed the handling of Epstein by the Manhattan Correctional Center after it was revealed a corrections officer had not checked on the pedophile for several hours before he hanged himself in his cell in the special housing unit.
Barr, who said he was 'appalled' and 'angry' at the failure to 'adequately secure' Epstein, added: 'This sex trafficking case was very important to the Department of Justice and to me personally.
'Most importantly this case was important to the victims who had the courage to come forward and deserve the opportunity to confront the accused in the courtroom.
'I was appalled, and indeed the whole department was, and frankly angry to learn of the MCC's failure to adequately secure this prisoner.
'We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation.
'We will get to the bottom of what happened and there will be accountability.'
A former close associate of the late mobster John Gotti Sr., Lewis Kasman, said he heard Barr paid the MCC a visit around the time Epstein was with bruises on his neck. He told The New York Post: 'When does that happen? The attorney general never visits jails. Something’s not right there.'
Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite daughter of late media tycoon Robert, is one of those who may find her dealings with the disgraced financier in the spotlight after he was found hanged in his prison cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center on Saturday morning.
Attorney General Bill Barr issued a stark warning to Jeffrey Epstein's alleged co-conspirators on Monday, telling them they 'should not rest easy'. He also slammed the handling of Epstein by the Manhattan Correctional Center
Maxwell, 58, described as the 'madam of the house' by a former housekeeper at Epstein's mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, has always denied any wrongdoing but reports now suggest she may even be ready to co-operate with the authorities.
Prosecutors may also target the witnesses who were set to testify against Epstein now that 'they don't need them', The New York Post reports.
One source said: 'They were getting a deal to testify against Epstein.'
According to Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown prosecutors 'will likely refocus their probe on Maxwell, Sarah Kellen Vickers, Adriana Ross and Lesley Groff'.
They have all been accused of helping to run Epstein's operation and Brown adds: 'Another woman, Nadia Marcinkova, was accused of sexually abusing some of the underage girls.'
Brown also told MSNBC there are still 'thousands and thousands of more documents that are probably going to be released'.
She added: 'There are so many threads of information and evidence and testimony and witnesses that are contained in those documents that he has a lot to work with there.'
Epstein's accusers may also be able to pursue civil cases against his estate, including his $77 million mansion in New York City and his Palm Beach home.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... sland.html
Adam Klasfeld
Just a quick recap of where things stand currently.
1. Federal investigation continues.
2. Proceedings to unseal new files next month.
3. Attorneys say they will keep fighting on victims’ behalf.
Developing. More comments from parties and observers to come.
Jeffrey Epstein Case Will Outlive Its Key Defendant http://ow.ly/eegv30plbii @KlasfeldReports
In the next update, a couple of other big issues:
4. A New York law extending statute of limitations for civil claims for sex abuse damages goes into effect this week. Look out for Epstein-related developments there.
5. Florida judge still deciding on fate of "sweetheart" NPA.
(NPA=non-prosecution agreement, a.k.a. the 2008 plea deal.)
That's not a moot point with Epstein's death, as the agreement--many say outrageously--immunized his suspected and unnamed co-conspirators.
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/sta ... 1453891587
There Were ‘Serious Irregularities’ at Federal Jail Where Jeffrey Epstein Died, Barr Says
Epstein died Saturday in Manhattan detention facility after being taken off suicide watch late last month
Updated Aug. 12, 2019 12:29 pm ET
Attorney General William Barr said he was ‘appalled and frankly angry’ to learn of the...
WASHINGTON—Investigators probing the apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein have found “serious irregularities” at the federal jail in New York where the disgraced financier was being held on sex-trafficking charges, Attorney General William Barr said Monday.
Mr. Epstein, 66, died Saturday in the Manhattan detention facility. He had been put in the suicide-watch unit July 23 after he was found in his cell unconscious and with marks on his neck. But he was taken off suicide watch late last month at the request of his attorneys, people familiar with the matter said. In the hours before his death, jail officials apparently failed to follow several protocols, leaving him alone and with minimal supervision.
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“I was appalled and frankly angry to learn of the [jail’s] failure to adequately secure this prisoner,” Mr. Barr said, speaking at a conference for police officers in New Orleans. “We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation.”
After Mr. Epstein was removed from suicide watch, he was downgraded to “special observation status,” which mandated that guards check on him every 30 minutes and also required him to have a cellmate, a person familiar with his detention said. But in the hours before Mr. Epstein’s death, his cellmate was gone, possibly out for a court appearance or another appointment, and not quickly replaced as required. And Mr. Epstein wasn’t receiving the regular check, this person said.
“We will get to the bottom of what happened, and there will be accountability,” Mr. Barr said.
Mr. Barr also promised the Justice Department would continue its investigation into people who allegedly helped Mr. Epstein recruit young women for sex trafficking.
“Any co-conspirators should not rest easy,” Mr. Barr said. “The victims deserve justice, and they will get it.”
Just over a month ago, Mr. Epstein was arrested on two federal charges related to sex trafficking of minors, for which he faced a maximum sentence of 45 years in prison. He pleaded not guilty.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said over the weekend that they were continuing their sex-trafficking investigation, and a growing cache of evidence could lead to other targets.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department’s inspector general have also devoted additional resources and manpower to investigating his death. The New York City medical examiner performed an autopsy Sunday but said she needed more information before making a determination.
The days before Mr. Epstein’s death brought new allegations of sexual exploitation and financial improprieties. A longtime client accused him of stealing more than $46 million, and newly unsealed civil court filings painted a picture of depravity and abuse.
Prosecutors accused Mr. Epstein of orchestrating a yearslong sex-trafficking operation in which he and his associates lured dozens of girls—some as young as 14 years old—to his homes in New York and Florida. He recruited them to perform massages in the nude that steadily progressed to masturbation and sex acts, prosecutors said.
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The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful People
Aug 12, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein’s home on East 71st Street.Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
Almost exactly a year ago, on Aug. 16, 2018, I visited Jeffrey Epstein at his cavernous Manhattan mansion.
The overriding impression I took away from our roughly 90-minute conversation was that Mr. Epstein knew an astonishing number of rich, famous and powerful people, and had photos to prove it. He also claimed to know a great deal about these people, some of it potentially damaging or embarrassing, including details about their supposed sexual proclivities and recreational drug use.
So one of my first thoughts on hearing of Mr. Epstein’s suicide was that many prominent men and at least a few women must be breathing sighs of relief that whatever Mr. Epstein knew, he has taken it with him.
During our conversation, Mr. Epstein made no secret of his own scandalous past — he’d pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting prostitution from underage girls and was a registered sex offender — and acknowledged to me that he was a pariah in polite society. At the same time, he seemed unapologetic. His very notoriety, he said, was what made so many people willing to confide in him. Everyone, he suggested, has secrets and, he added, compared with his own, they seemed innocuous. People confided in him without feeling awkward or embarrassed, he claimed.
I’d never met Mr. Epstein before. I had contacted him because my colleagues and I had heard a rumor that he was advising Tesla’s embattled chief executive, Elon Musk, who was in trouble after announcing on Twitter that he had lined up the funding to take Tesla private.
The Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation into Mr. Musk’s remarks, which moved markets but didn’t appear to have much basis in fact. There were calls for Mr. Musk to relinquish his position as Tesla’s chairman and for Tesla to recruit more independent directors. I’d heard that Mr. Epstein was compiling a list of candidates at Mr. Musk’s behest — and that Mr. Epstein had an email from Mr. Musk authorizing the search for a new chairman.
Mr. Musk and Tesla vehemently deny this. “It is incorrect to say that Epstein ever advised Elon on anything,” a spokeswoman for Mr. Musk, Keely Sulprizio, said Monday.
When I contacted Mr. Epstein, he readily agreed to an interview. The caveat was that the conversation would be “on background,” which meant I could use the information as long as I didn’t attribute it directly to him. (I consider that condition to have lapsed with his death.)
He insisted that I meet him at his house, which I’d seen referred to as the largest single-family home in Manhattan. This seems plausible: I initially walked past the building, on East 71st Street, because it looked more like an embassy or museum than a private home. Next to the imposing double doors was a polished brass plaque with the initials “J.E.” and a bell. After I rang, the door was opened by a young woman, her blond hair pulled back in a chignon, who greeted me with what sounded like an Eastern European accent.
I can’t say how old she was, but my guess would be late teens or perhaps 20. Given Mr. Epstein’s past, this struck me as far too close to the line. Why would Mr. Epstein want a reporter’s first impression to be that of a young woman opening his door?
The woman led me up a monumental staircase to a room on the second floor overlooking the Frick museum across the street. It was quiet, the lighting dim, and the air-conditioning was set very low. After a few minutes, Mr. Epstein bounded in, dressed casually in jeans and a polo shirt, shook my hand and said he was a big fan of my work. He had a big smile and warm manner. He was trim and energetic, perhaps from all the yoga he said he was practicing. He was undeniably charismatic.
Before we left the room he took me to a wall covered with framed photographs. He pointed to a full-length shot of a man in traditional Arab dress. “That’s M.B.S.,” he said, referring to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. The crown prince had visited him many times, and they spoke often, Mr. Epstein said.
He led me to a large room at the rear of the house. There was an expansive table with about 20 chairs. Mr. Epstein took a seat at the head, and I sat to his left. He had a computer, a small blackboard and a phone to his right. He said he was doing some foreign-currency trading.
Behind him was a table covered with more photographs. I noticed one of Mr. Epstein with former President Bill Clinton, and another of him with the director Woody Allen. Displaying photos of celebrities who had been caught up in sex scandals of their own also struck me as odd.
Mr. Epstein avoided specifics about his work for Tesla. He told me that he had good reason to be cryptic: Once it became public that he was advising the company, he’d have to stop doing so, because he was “radioactive.” He predicted that everyone at Tesla would deny talking to him or being his friend.
He said this was something he’d become used to, even though it didn’t stop people from visiting him, coming to his dinner parties or asking him for money. (That was why, Mr. Epstein told me without any trace of irony, he was considering becoming a minister so that his acquaintances would be confident that their conversations would be kept confidential.)
If he was reticent about Tesla, he was more at ease discussing his interest in young women. He said that criminalizing sex with teenage girls was a cultural aberration and that at times in history it was perfectly acceptable. He pointed out that homosexuality had long been considered a crime and was still punishable by death in some parts of the world.
Mr. Epstein then meandered into a discussion of other prominent names in technology circles. He said people in Silicon Valley had a reputation for being geeky workaholics, but that was far from the truth: They were hedonistic and regular users of recreational drugs. He said he’d witnessed prominent tech figures taking drugs and arranging for sex (Mr. Epstein stressed that he never drank or used drugs of any kind).
I kept trying to steer the conversation back to Tesla, but Mr. Epstein remained evasive. He said he’d spoken to the Saudis about possibly investing in Tesla, but he wouldn’t provide any specifics or names. When I pressed him on the purported email from Mr. Musk, he said the email wasn’t from Mr. Musk himself, but from someone very close to him. He wouldn’t say who that person was. I asked him if that person would talk to me, and he said he’d ask. He later said the person declined; I doubt he asked.
When I later reflected on our interview, I was struck by how little information Mr. Epstein had actually provided. While I can’t say anything he said was an explicit lie, much of what he said was vague or speculative and couldn’t be proved or disproved. He did have at least some ties to Mr. Musk — a widely circulated photo shows Mr. Musk with Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Epstein’s confidante and former companion, at the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscars party.
“Ghislaine simply inserted herself behind him in a photo he was posing for without his knowledge,” Ms. Sulprizio, the spokeswoman for Mr. Musk, said.
It seemed clear Mr. Epstein had embellished his role in the Tesla situation to enhance his own importance and gain attention — something that now seems to have been a pattern.
About a week after that interview, Mr. Epstein called and asked if I’d like to have dinner that Saturday with him and Woody Allen. I said I’d be out of town. A few weeks after that, he asked me to join him for dinner with the author Michael Wolff and Donald J. Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon. I declined. (I don’t know if these dinners actually happened. Mr. Bannon has said he didn’t attend. Mr. Wolff and a spokeswoman for Mr. Allen didn’t respond to requests for comment on Monday.)
Several months passed. Then early this year Mr. Epstein called to ask if I’d be interested in writing his biography. He sounded almost plaintive. I sensed that what he really wanted was companionship. As his biographer, I’d have no choice but to spend hours listening to his saga. Already leery of any further ties to him, I was relieved I could say that I was already busy with another book.
That was the last I heard from him. After his arrest and suicide, I’m left to wonder: What might he have told me?
https://nyti.ms/2OSpIcF
by cptmarginal » Mon Aug 12, 2019 9:32 pm
seemslikeadream » Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:11 am wrote:thank you for that advice cptmarginal and I will add this link that Elvis provided earlier for getting behind paywall I have found it extremely helpful
http://archive.is
by seemslikeadream » Mon Aug 12, 2019 10:12 pm
kadhim
Epstein victims ask Judge Marra, in light of Epstein's death, to "grant the victims all of their proposed remedies – including invaliding the provisions in the non-prosecution agreement that precludes prosecution of Epstein’s co-conspirators"
https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.co ... 071479.pdf …
4:43 PM - 12 Aug 2019
https://twitter.com/kadhimshubber/statu ... 1619553281
The Latest: 1 of Epstein’s guards not a corrections officer
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the death of Jeffrey Epstein (all times local):
9:20 p.m.
A person familiar with operations at the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself says one of the two people guarding him the night he died wasn’t a correctional officer.
The person wasn’t authorized to disclose information about the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The person said Epstein hanged himself with a bedsheet, days after being taken off a suicide watch.
Federal prisons facing shortages of fully trained guards have resorted to having other types of support staff fill in for correctional officers, including clerical workers and teachers.
Jail policy called for guards to check Epstein every 30 minutes, but investigators have learned those checks weren’t done for several hours in the hours before he was discovered Saturday.
That’s according to a second person who was not authorized to discuss the matter and also spoke on condition of anonymity.
— By Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo.
Paris prosecutor office said judicial officials are currently checking whether an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s case must be open on the French territory.
Some “elements” submitted to magistrates are being analyzed, the Paris prosecutor office said.
France’s government wants prosecutors to open an investigation into Epstein’s links to France following his apparent suicide.
A French NGO defending children rights, Innocence Endangered, said France is concerned since several French citizen appear in the U.S. case and some alleged victims are French, in a letter addressed to Paris prosecutors published Monday by French magazine L’Obs.
U.S. authorities say Epstein had a residence in Paris and used a fake Austrian passport to travel to France in the 1980s.
He was accused of sexually abusing underage girls for years and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy. He pleaded not guilty.
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6:25 a.m.
France’s government wants prosecutors to open an investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s links to France following his death in a Manhattan jail cell.
The secretaries of state for women’s rights and protecting children said in a statement Monday that it is “fundamental” to launch an investigation in France so that his death “doesn’t deprive the victims of the justice they deserve” and to protect other girls from “this kind of predator.”
U.S. authorities say Epstein had a residence in Paris and used a fake Austrian passport to travel to France in the 1980s. The French statement didn’t elaborate on other links to France.
The high-flying U.S. financier was accused of sexually abusing underage girls for years and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy. He pleaded not guilty.
The Paris prosecutor’s office did not immediately comment.
He had pleaded not guilty and was awaiting trialhttps://apnews.com/a456a7f5894a462 ... a4e3909a31
by Elvis » Mon Aug 12, 2019 10:40 pm
Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging in his Lower Manhattan jail cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed, The Post has learned.
The convicted pedophile, who was 6 feet tall, apparently killed himself by kneeling toward the floor and strangling himself with the makeshift noose, a law enforcement source said Monday.
by 82_28 » Mon Aug 12, 2019 11:26 pm
by seemslikeadream » Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:07 am
“THEY’RE NOTHING, THESE GIRLS”: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF GHISLAINE MAXWELL, EPSTEIN’S ENABLER
She hired girls for him, shared his life with him, possibly hoped to marry him. And now she may be a target of a conspiracy charge.
BY VANESSA GRIGORIADIS
AUGUST 12, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell (right) with Carol Mack at an event in New York City, 1995.
BY PATRICK MCMULLAN/GETTY IMAGES.
Is it possible prosecutors have lost track of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged co-conspirator in his pedophile ring? For the past few weeks, rumors have circulated that she’s 400 pounds and living in Florida, or that she’s living the high life in London or the Continent, but according to the Washington Post, authorities are having a hard time locating her. Those who know her say that it’s possible she is as much of a Houdini as Epstein. Both of them liked having secrets, and the way those secrets kept people off balance. “Jeffrey always wanted to give the impression that he was an international man of mystery—‘I control everyone and everything, I collect people, I own people, I can damage people,’” says an ex-girlfriend.
As part of Epstein’s original plea deal, negotiated with Alexander Acosta, the others implicated were also given immunity from prosecution, which is partly why victims like Virginia Roberts Giuffre pursued her and others in civil courts. But Epstein’s death has not stopped the current investigation. “We remain committed to standing for you,” Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote in a statement after Epstein’s death, “and our investigation of the conduct charged in the Indictment—which included a conspiracy count—remains ongoing.” There were rumors on Monday afternoon that indictments of five people were imminent.
The nature of the relationship between Epstein and Maxwell, the favorite daughter of embezzling press baron Robert Maxwell, who died when he fell or was pushed from his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, is not well known. Multiple victims claim she was both part of the sex trafficking ring, often bringing girls to Epstein, and a sexual participant. But Epstein told of-age women he courted that Maxwell was a former girlfriend fallen on hard times, and that he had taken it upon himself to maintain her position in society. “Ghislaine floated in and out of the house with the keys, and even though Jeffrey told me they didn’t have a sexual relationship, she’d drop under her breath that she was sleeping in his bed from time to time,” says an ex-girlfriend. Another woman in Maxwell’s orbit says she used to joke about keeping herself rail thin because Epstein liked thin girls. Maxwell, whose father was Jewish, liked to shock. “She said, ‘I do it the way Nazis did it with the Jews, the Auschwitz diet. I just don’t eat.’”
The sinister depravity of Epstein’s sexual world, and Maxwell’s role in enabling it, was mostly kept hidden. The two were fixtures on a certain rarefied Manhattan circuit. Epstein was as a practical joker who liked messing with people he regarded as lower on the food chain. A prominent 1990s Sports Illustrated model who dated Epstein describes meeting Donald Trump at one of Trump’s parties in the penthouse of the Plaza Hotel back then, and Trump goading Epstein to get her number. “Jeffrey said he wouldn’t give it to him and he had to get it from me,” she says. She finally gave it to him on another occasion, but he lost the number. “Trump called Jeffrey trying to get it again, saying ‘She gave it to me! You know she gave it to me! You can give it to me now!’ but Jeffrey wouldn’t do it.” She laughs. “Donald was such a joke to all of the models back then—we all knew he was bankrupt and had no game. I remember Jeffrey once saying he was going to be late to pick me up because he had to drop off food for Donald—he was at home crying under the covers.”
Maxwell seemed to adore Epstein, who was a grinning grifter with the gift of gab, and always had a story to tell, even about his home. “He was obsessed with jewelry boxes and very detailed, ornate designs—he told me the Pope actually gave him artisans who teamed up with this one jewelry-box maker from Paris to make his dining room look like a giant version of the inside of a Parisian jewelry box,” says an ex-girlfriend. Epstein also said that his friend Lynn Forester, now married to billionaire Evelyn de Rothschild, needed his financial help during her 1990s divorce from politician Andrew Stein, and that he had graciously floated her. (“100% false,” says a spokesperson for Forester.) He claimed that the producers of The Apprentice had first approached him to make a show about a reclusive billionaire living an extravagant life, but he said no, and then introduced them to Trump. (A spokesperson for Mark Burnett denies this).
On the weekends in the 1990s, Maxwell would have her Rollerblades FedExed to Epstein’s island in the Caribbean, and said she got her helicopter’s license so she could transport anyone she liked without pilots knowing who they were. Maxwell also said the island had been completely wired for video; the friend thought that she and Epstein were videotaping everyone on the island as an insurance policy, as blackmail. A source close to Maxwell says she spoke glibly and confidently about getting girls to sexually service Epstein, saying this was simply what he wanted, and describing the way she’d drive around to spas and trailer parks in Florida to recruit them. She would claim she had a phone job for them, “and you’ll make lots of money, meet everyone, and I’ll change your life.” The source continues, “Ghislaine was in love with Jeffrey the way she was in love with her father. She always thought if she just did one more thing for him, to please him, he would marry her.”
Maxwell had one other thing to tell this woman: “When I asked what she thought of the underage girls, she looked at me and said, ‘they’re nothing, these girls. They are trash.’”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08 ... in-enabler
Vicky Ward
"Maxwell also said the island had been completely wired for video; the friend thought that she and Epstein were videotaping everyone on the island as an insurance policy, as blackmail."
There has been much speculation about Ghislaine Maxwell and her current whereabouts, even prior to Epstein's suicide this weekend. In the wake of his death, the spotlight will focus even more intensely on her and the extent of her involvement in Epstein's activities.
Ghislaine Maxwell was the perfect front—and perfect foil—for Jeffrey Epstein. She was aristocratic and, unlike him, very well educated. They had once dated, but she was promoted from girlfriend to “friend” when it was over. She remained frequently by his side.
Maxwell is the daughter of the disgraced late British newspaperman Robert Maxwell, who died under unusual circumstances: disappearing off his yacht—the Lady Ghislaine—while anchored off the Canary Islands. His death set off a host of conspiracy theories.
Following his death, Robert Maxwell was revealed as a fraudster. Two of his sons were arrested on charges of “stealing from employee pension funds and one Maxwell company and of conspiring to defraud banks.”
Jeffrey Epstein paid for Ghislaine to have the kind of lifestyle she had grown up with and to which she was accustomed.
The question is: What did she do for him in return?
In 2002, when I was reporting on Epstein for Vanity Fair, I spoke to two sisters—Annie and Maria Farmer, who have both gone on the record about how Epstein allegedly molested Annie when she was just 16. They say that what happened would not have happened without Ghislaine.
Ghislaine told the girls’ mother she would be there as chaperone during the time Annie Farmer spent with Epstein. Ghislaine was incredibly convincing.
The mother had thought her daughters would be safe under Epstein’s roof. Clearly, they—and so many other young girls—were not.
With Epstein’s death, his victims are denied the chance at justice that would come from a criminal trial. Civil trials are still possible. But it is as yet uncertain what will come next.
I spoke to a lawyer for one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims earlier today. Right now, they’re in a holding pattern. There are numerous questions: Did Jeffrey Epstein have a will? If so, under what jurisdiction does that will fall? These answers will come, but we don’t have them yet.
Jeffrey Epstein's death this weekend isn't the end of anything. This remains very much a developing story.
https://twitter.com/VickyPJWard/status/ ... 0798779392
by Grizzly » Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:45 am
by seemslikeadream » Tue Aug 13, 2019 12:47 am
by Grizzly » Tue Aug 13, 2019 1:31 am
Sources familiar with the correctional facility in question tell TMZ, there are cameras in the Special Housing Unit — the SHU — but SOP is that cameras do not point into the cells. We’re told cameras capture, among other things, the doors to each cell to determine if anyone walks in or out, but they don’t point inside.
by 8bitagent » Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:39 am
by seemslikeadream » Tue Aug 13, 2019 6:01 am
We say "apparently took his own life," because prison officials still haven't said how he died. As we reported, a camera is trained on all the cell doors inside the SHU, which would show if someone -- another inmate or a guard -- entered to do him harm.
Prison officials clearly know if someone came in or if Epstein acted alone, but they're not saying.
https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/12/jeffrey- ... veillance/
Nearby inmate heard nothing when Jeffrey Epstein died, lawyer says
Attorney Bruce Barket said his client heard nothing out of the ordinary on the morning the accused sex trafficker apparently took his own life.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ne ... s-n1041646
JEFFREY EPSTEIN
TARGETED WITH DEATH THREATS
... Should Have Had 24/7 Surveillance
Jeffrey Epstein was the target of death threats from fellow inmates during his stay at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center ... and should have been watched 24/7 ... this according to multiple sources connected with the investigation.
Our sources say ... despite being taken off suicide watch, there was concern for Epstein's safety in the Special Housing Unit -- the SHU -- and he was supposed to be watched around the clock.
We're told several of the threats involved extortion ... put money in the inmate's commissary account or else endure physical violence. We're told the extortion started early on ... before July 23, when Epstein apparently attempted suicide.
https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/12/jeffrey- ... veillance/
Jeffrey Epstein Conspiracies and the Mysterious Deaths of the Rich and Ruined
John Cassidy
On the evening of November 5, 1991, a Spanish fisherman spotted the body of Robert Maxwell, a controversial British press baron, floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands. The crew of Maxwell’s luxury motor yacht had been searching for him all day, after he had vanished that morning with no explanation. Almost immediately, conspiracy theories emerged. Maxwell, who came to Britain as an impoverished Eastern European émigré and turned himself into a larger-than-life figure and confidant of political leaders, hadn’t ended his own life: he had been murdered. The rumored perpetrators included agents of the K.G.B. or M.I.6, or a team of frogmen from the Mossad. In support of this theory, it was pointed out that Maxwell had long been rumored to have ties to various intelligence agencies, especially the Israeli one. Maybe he had been silenced to prevent him from spilling the beans.
Almost thirty years later, some people cling to these confabulations, despite the existence of a simpler and more convincing explanation for Maxwell’s death. When he set out on his boat, he knew that the debt-burdened business empire which he had spent decades building, Maxwell Communication Corporation, was on the brink of collapse. He also knew that, in a desperate and failed effort to prevent such an outcome, he and his associates had taken hundreds of millions of pounds from M.C.C.’s employee pensions and used the money to try to prop up the company’s share price. After the inevitable bankruptcy occurred, this illegal scheme would be revealed. Maxwell would be ruined, shamed, and, most likely, sent to jail. To a man who was eaten up by pride and insecurity even as he became a well-known figure on two continents—that year, he had purchased the Daily News—the prospect of financial ruin and public humiliation was too much to take. So he jumped overboard.
Having followed Maxwell’s career closely as a financial writer and editor for the London Sunday Times, I believed at the time, and continue to believe, this version of events. It doesn’t clear up all the mysteries surrounding Maxwell’s death, such as the lack of a suicide note and the fact that a team of coroners couldn’t agree conclusively on the cause, leaving open the possibility of heart attack or accidental drowning. But suicide is intuitively plausible, and it satisfies the principle of Occam’s razor, which says that when choosing between various theories we should choose the one that provides the simplest explanation and requires the fewest auxiliary hypotheses to be true.
In a remarkable quirk of history, the stories of Robert Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein are linked, through Maxwell’s daughter, Ghislaine. The motor yacht on which Maxwell took his last steps was called Lady Ghislaine. Shortly after his death, Ghislaine Maxwell moved to New York, where she met Epstein, becoming his girlfriend, and, according to some accounts, his procurer. (She has vigorously denied these claims.) Like Maxwell, Epstein was a self-made figure—he hailed from Coney Island and didn’t graduate from college—who lived on his wits. Like Maxwell, he cultivated prominent people even though the source of his fortune was opaque. And, like Maxwell in 1991, at the time of Epstein’s death everything was being taken away from him.
Unlike a decade ago, when Epstein had used his money and influence to emerge from a two-year F.B.I. investigation facing just a single state charge of soliciting sex from a minor, he was trapped. In July, a team of federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York had accused him of running a sex-trafficking scheme involving dozens of underage girls. A judge had denied his plea for bail. New witnesses had come forward. The case had attracted enormous publicity. Virtually everyone associated with Epstein had turned on him, including Leslie Wexner, the retail billionaire who appears to have been a primary source of Epstein’s fortune. (Last week, Wexner claimed that Epstein “misappropriated vast sums of money from me and my family.”)
At sixty-six, Epstein was facing the prospect of languishing for months in a nightmarish jail that had housed the likes of John Gotti and El Chapo; facing his accusers in a criminal trial; losing his fortune in civil suits; and spending the rest of his life in a federal pen, this time without the work release he’d been granted during his first incarceration. He had lost what sociopaths like him value most: control. Based on what we know now, it appears that Epstein killed himself in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, on Saturday morning, and that no one else was involved. In some ways, this isn’t a very satisfying explanation, and it raises important questions about why Epstein wasn’t being supervised more closely. But it fits the facts that have been revealed so far. It also fits what we know about Epstein’s psychological profile. And it doesn’t require the involvement of Mossad frogmen, or their equivalent, to be true.
But how was he allowed to do it? According to the Wall Street Journal, Epstein’s own attorneys were the ones who requested that he be taken off suicide watch. This doesn’t explain why the authorities acceded to this request when Epstein, only weeks earlier, had been found unconscious in his cell, with bruises on his neck. Similarly, we don’t know why Epstein was left alone in his cell last Friday night, or why the guards didn’t check on him at regular intervals, as the jail’s standard procedure demanded. “It remained unclear why that procedure was not followed in Mr. Epstein’s case,” the Times reported on Sunday. Bob Hood, a former senior official at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which runs the Metropolitan Correctional Center, told the Times, “The Bureau of Prisons dropped the ball. Period.”
That explanation won’t satisfy many people, of course—not with the President and members of his Administration spreading defamatory conspiracy theories about the Clintons. On Saturday, Trump retweeted a video from a conservative comedian, Terrence Williams, in which Williams suggested that Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton were responsible for Epstein’s death. (Earlier on Saturday, Lynne Patton, an official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, posted a headline about Epstein’s death along with the word “Hillary’d!!” and the hashtag “#VinceFosterPartTwo.”) What the forty-fifth President appears to be intimating is that an assassin, working for the forty-second President, broke into one of the most secure jails in the country, hanged Epstein, and left without disturbing the guards or being caught on internal cameras. And perhaps the most remarkable thing is that no one is really surprised to see Trump doing this—disinformation and incitement are two of his trademarks.
Of course, Trump isn’t the only one raising questions. As I pointed out in a column last month, the Epstein saga, in addition to being a sickening sex-crime story, is really about wealth, privilege, and the ability of the super-rich to circumvent the rules that bind ordinary people. Over the weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio said, “Something’s way too convenient here, and we need to get down to the bottom of what happened.” De Blasio, along with Republican Senator Ben Sasse, has demanded an independent probe into the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death. Could someone working for Epstein have got to the warden, or whoever made the suicide-watch decision, and to the guards? Given the way the earlier case was resolved, in 2008, and the list of names that have been associated with Epstein, such a possibility, outlandish as it sounds, needs to be investigated. Right now, though, the simplest explanation seems like the most persuasive one: Epstein wanted out, and a series of screwups allowed him to beat the system, again.
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