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Miami Herald Investigative Reporter: 'Quite A Few Powerful, Important People' May Be Named in Jeffrey Epstein Casehttps://www.newsweek.com/miami-herald-investigative-reporter-quite-few-powerful-important-people-may-named-jeffrey-1447929
While I want to give clicks to her paper, the Miami Herald, it has a very restrictive paywall so you may not be able to access if you've used any free clicks. Still, here it is for her latest reporting:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article232385422.html#storylink=mainstage_lead
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"Have you seen that nexus of power come to bare as you have reported this, and in the aftermath of your reporting," MSNBC host David Gura asked Brown.
"I've felt a lot of pressure," Brown answered. "Needless to say, these are very powerful people and I think that they're sweating a little bit, especially today. We don't know how much, how deep this went, how far-reaching it went in government, but there have been a lot of names that I could see on these message pads [listing clients] on a regular basis as part of the evidence."
Brown continued: "These message pads where they would call and leave Epstein messages, such as, 'I'm at this hotel.' Why do you do that, unless you're expecting him to send you a girl to visit you at your hotel? So there are probably quite a few important people, powerful people, who are sweating it out right now. We'll have to wait and see whether Epstein is going to name names."
Next, Gura specifically asked Brown about Epstein's Palm Beach neighbor Donald Trump, where Brown said Epstein had a "friendly" relationship with Trump. "They went to dinner parties at each other's houses," Brown continued. "Trump was also on his plane, probably not as much as a lot of other people because, you know, Trump had his own plane. But they had a lot of social relationships. And the other interesting thing is Trump had a modeling agency, and Epstein also had a stake in a modeling agency, which they suspect he used to bring in underage girls from overseas."
"There is a comment in one of the court files where Epstein is quoted as saying, 'I want to set up my modeling agency the same way Trump set up his modeling agency.' I don't know what that means, but it is curious he was trying to do something similar to Trump." Brown said.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)And not before.
Not that I dont accept that this happened or the rich and powerful were involved, but they seem to have a way of getting around those pesky laws made for the rest of us.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)(And the whole rotten system.)
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)neck in all kinds of evil and illegal things but he has been proven to be a slippery individual.
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 8, 2019, 06:41 AM - Edit history (1)
Jeffrey Epstein Shouldnt Expect to Wriggle Free AgainFeds in Florida cut an infamous sweetheart deal with the confessed billionaire sex predator. The sovereign district of New York isnt likely to do that.--an early analysis from Mimi Rocah that will answer many of your questions...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-shouldnt-expect-to-wiggle-free-again-with-sdny-sex-trafficking-charges
The case of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, thus far, is one of the most egregious examples. Epstein actually got caught: he was arrested and charged last decade by federal authorities for running a sex-trafficking operation in which minor girls experienced horrible sexual abuse and rape in Florida. But then Epstein was given a slap-on-the-wrist deal in 2008 from the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of Florida and some of his co-conspirators were shielded from prosecution. To make matters even worse, that deal seems to have been the product of some serious gamesmanship by a cabal of other powerful white men, including Alex Acosta, then-U.S. Attorney and now Labor Secretary. --snip--
Charges of federal sex trafficking carry mandatory minimums of 10-15 years on each count. Mandatory means mandatory. In other words, short of a cooperation agreement with the governmentwhich in the SDNY famously means full cooperation against all possible other subjects and targetsEpstein will serve at least 10-15 years in prison (possibly more depending on the number of counts) if convicted.
In addition, in my experience as a prosecutor involved in trafficking cases in the SDNY, that office is not in the practice of giving slap-on-the-wrist deals to sex offenders and will prosecute the case fairly but with appropriate zeal. The fact that the FBI also reportedly executed a search warrant at Epsteins New York residence suggests either that they had probable cause to believe there was more recent conduct that occurred there and/or that evidence from his past crimes was likely to be found there this many years later. That search could yield important new evidence.
--more-- at link above
3Hotdogs
(12,391 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)I guess you've never watched ShowTime's "Billions" where SDNY (and its US Attorney) is essentially a "lead character". But this reputation goes back even before Giuliani was there (waay back when he was actually not an incompetent lawyer).
BTW, Mimi Rocah was a former Federal Prosecutor for SDNY.
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)Will There Finally Be a Cost for Acosta?
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/all-we-know-about-the-new-case-against-jeffrey-epstein.html
According to the Miami Herald, Acosta met privately with one of Epsteins lawyers Jay Lefkowitz a former colleague in D.C. and gave Epsteins legal team a bizarre amount of control over the plea deals terms. (Other Epstein lawyers included Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr.) Thank you for the commitment you made to me, Lefkowitz wrote to Acosta after their meeting, referring to Acostas promise he would not contact any of the identified individuals, potential witnesses or potential civil claimants. The deal was kept secret until it was finalized.
As the Trump administrations Secretary of Labor, Acosta has already faced calls for resignation. With Epsteins arrest over the weekend, the calls are growing again, including messages from former Senator Mike Gravel and Congressman Ted Lieu.
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)hmmm....
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/all-we-know-about-the-new-case-against-jeffrey-epstein.html
LisaL
(44,973 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)it has never dimmed from well before HRC's first Presidential run. I won't make snide suppositions as to the cause, but it is really disproportionate to simple "dislike"...
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)them.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)Could the coolness between the Clintons and Carter's have been the root of that?
JI7
(89,252 posts)any investigations into these things.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)...and just hope for the best..
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)in reports of sexual misconduct...I know it doesn't matter to the 30%ers...but to decent people..Will the maga fantasy disappear?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)who went to a real jail then I will get excited.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Went to real jail.
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Wednesdays
(17,380 posts)Yeah, she may be worth multi millions, but BILLIONS is news to me.
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)From her Wikipedia page:
On October 19, 1999, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MSO. The initial public offering was set at $18 per share, and rallied to $38 by the end of trading, making Stewart a billionaire on paper and the first female, self-made billionaire in the U.S.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)But she first became a billionaire in 2000.
"At the time, shares in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia soared 90%, boosting her fortune back to $1 billion. (She'd first hit that mark in 2000, after taking her company public a year earlier. She fell off the list again in 2001.)"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2015/06/19/martha-stewart-preps-sale-of-empire-once-worth-2-billion/#10d1d5587d46
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)for white collar criminals.
We want billionaires in GenPop in a supermax.
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)she only "come clean" and admitted insider trading, she'd have avoided jail totally, given current Federal charging guidelines. She received some very poor legal advice (or failed to take what she was given).
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)It's rare, but it does happen.
https://www.justrichest.com/14-corrupt-billionaires-who-have-served-jail-time/amp/
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)went to real jail, too. CNBC's "American Greed" chronicles these crimes.
elevator48
(53 posts)also Bernie Madoff. It happens and these types of crimes almost insure it.
tblue37
(65,408 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,185 posts)It's more than just sex with little childre. It's torture.
This is what capitalism creates. We all are merely commodities. Children are things to be bought and sold. The richest capitalist kings get away with all sorts of horrendous abuse.
Because they are blessed by God with heavenly money and capital so they can rape and torture little children. This is the true face of capitalism and what happens when anyone thinks they are superior, better than all the rest of us. Blessed by God.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Funtatlaguy
(10,879 posts)Hed just go to the local mall and hang out near the Orange 🍊 Julius store.
phatkatt
(1,376 posts)Being from Alabama nothing would give me more pleasure than see that creep exposed!
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)Hotler
(11,425 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,799 posts)Nothing big ever happens. The Big Names will skate through. I mean isnt that what having a billion dollars is for: protecting oneself and friends. Yawn.
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)So, this seems anything but a whitewash. To publicly solicit for additional victims is not typical.
That FBI Director in Charge is as hard-ass as they come and the SDNY AG (Berman) certainly seems in it for the long term.
Polly Hennessey
(6,799 posts)I may yawn, but I am always hopeful.
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)evidence in her reporting that led to follow-up and ultimately charging today.
So, if justice prevails, it will largely be from her efforts.
hlthe2b
(102,292 posts)from the evidence they already have, most think the charges announced today is merely tip of the iceberg...
Skittles
(153,169 posts)FUCKING PERVERTS