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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/08/us/jeffrey-epstein-monday-court-appearance/index.htmlAccording to the indictment, between 2002 and 2005, Epstein ran a trafficking enterprise in which he paid hundreds of dollars in cash to girls as young as 14 to have sex with him at his Upper East Side home and his estate in Palm Beach, worked with employees and associates who would lure the girls to his residences and paid some of his victims to recruit other girls for him to abuse.
"In this way, Epstein created a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit, often on a daily basis," the US Attorney's office said in a press release.
Epstein, 66, was arrested Saturday and is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court on Monday. He is charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors.
So, trafficking of minors, and the concomitant bank and wire fraud charges. That's 200 years per count.
Remember: this is just one of the 12 cases Mueller left to SDNY. And Maurene Comey (guess, by her last name, whose daughter she is. Go on. Guess.) is leading the prosecution.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Prostitution.
Underage victims dba exploitation to make profit.
Both major crimes. There is a list of patrons. These men knew what they were doing was wrong and still participated.
Kali
(55,014 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)I thought it was just something else that was going on, that they are connected is...I don't know...encouraging? interesting as hell, anyway!
Make7
(8,543 posts)The Lead-Up to a Long-Overdue Indictment
Epsteins arrest came as a welcome surprise to many, but the momentum for new charges against him has been building since last year. In November, the Miami Herald published an explosive investigative report that revealed horrifying new details about Epsteins crimes and their effects on his many victims. The report included on-the-record, firsthand accounts from four of those victims and exposed the secret plea deal Epsteins lawyers negotiated with former prosecutor and current Department of Labor secretary Alexander Acosta.
The Miami Herald report prompted Nebraska senator Ben Sasse to prod the Justice Department to investigate the plea deal negotiated by Acosta. The deal, in which Epstein pleaded guilty to two state charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor, granted him and his potential accomplices immunity from federal charges. In February, the DOJ announced its inquiry into allegations that Department attorneys may have committed professional misconduct in the manner in which the Epstein criminal matter was resolved. Also in February, a U.S. district judge ruled that because prosecutors did not inform victims of the plea or provide the opportunity to testify about it, the deal violated the Crime Victims Rights Act.
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/all-we-know-about-the-new-case-against-jeffrey-epstein.html
Lots of background info in that piece. The recent DOJ investigation seems to have been precipitated by the reporting in the Miami Herald.
Kali
(55,014 posts)it would be so interesting if there were a legal connection to the M investigation, though. either way I hope the orange asshole is sweating about it, even in the smallest way.
ancianita
(36,095 posts)It's as if journalism does all the leg work, THEN law enforcement, made to pay attention and prosecute, takes the credit.
11cents
(1,777 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)We don't have no basis.
We don't need no steenking basis!
People just make shit up and post it to DU.
"200 years per count", lol. Yeah.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"People just make shit up and post it to DU"
Or simply ask a question... which is often misinterpreted as the above, allowing us a golden opportunity to maintain a pretense of cleverness at the expense of others that may not otherwise exist.
"Yeah" indeed.
Takket
(21,578 posts)He was already charged and got the plea deal from Acosta. So what are they charging him with now? Are these new charges from new victims that cane after the Acosta deal?
hlthe2b
(102,293 posts)reflect separate new charges. And even if a victim for which he was charged for assaulting in Florida reflects a count in the SDNY indictment, if it was an uncharged incident from Florida OR more importantly, if it occurred in NY, it is a distinctly separate charge and NO double jeopardy.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)("New" meaning previously unrecognized). I would assume any plea deal couldn't include those separate crimes, since they were unknown to the prosecution/prostitution at the time.
hlthe2b
(102,293 posts)True Blue American
(17,986 posts)And the Prosecutor is showing his picture, asking others if the recognize this man to come forward.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)with their deal?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)The feds didn't bring him to trial or enter into an actual plea bargain with him (where he would have pleaded guilty to a federal crime). They entered into a 'non-prosecution agreement' with him, in exchange for his state plea. The 'non-prosecution agreement' is only binding with the office that made it, the US southern district of Florida. So, they're saying that jeopardy didn't attach.
Takket
(21,578 posts)WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)plus some other crimes.
House of Roberts
(5,177 posts)In the 10 years since Epsteins case was closed by the FBI, about two dozen civil court cases had been filed, often alleging that Epsteins sex crimes with underage victims were far more serious than prosecutors led the public to believe. The vast trove of litigation included tens of thousands of pages of court pleadings, motions, appeals, depositions, hearing transcripts, judges decisions, witness and victim statements, as well as emails and letters between federal prosecutors and Epsteins defense lawyers.
Farmer-Rick
(10,185 posts)Then there evidence he was bringing on little girls from other countries. The Guardian is calling what he did pedosadism. So there was torture involved.
Epstein is a piece of work. He's got money enough for anything. He's not bad looking for an old white guy, certainly he's better looking than the orange president. And he decides to traffic in little girls. What an absolute waste of an existence.
honest.abe
(8,678 posts)This guy is going down.. finally!!
Fiendish Thingy
(15,624 posts)As your comments imply
mitch96
(13,912 posts)I read it was one of the things turned up in his investigations and turned over to NY. He did not investigate Epstein.
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Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)to shut this down? And if these are federal charges could Trump pardon Epstein?
I'm not getting my hopes up.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 8, 2019, 01:56 PM - Edit history (1)
His head is at the end of a child size penis, those he and his pals pray on.
Karadeniz
(22,537 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)Captain Zero
(6,811 posts)So that wouldn't be Trump.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)Epstein was well known for passing his "lolitas" around to his pals or as "party favors".
He also had hidden cameras installed all over his house to capture the people in the act of having sex with underage girls to use as blackmail material.
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)my niece was sexually molested by her grandfather when she was 12 (other side of the family thank god).
ok... now I get you... (ha...very small ha)
BamaRefugee
(3,483 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)surely about to emerge. These creeps keep trophies, and, apparently, Epstein liked to take pictures.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Sick ass people in a toxic society.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)chains. Scum
jmbar2
(4,890 posts)Who boy, should have tRump shaking in his boots.
See pg 13 of the indictment
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6184409-Epstein-Indictment-2019-07-08.html
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