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Epstein Thread: His brother says Barr cover up; Scumbag Alan Dershowitz asked Trump to pardon Maxwell; Epstein commits suicide! :damn:
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GnauzBookOfRhymes
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absolutely, especially when it comes to the financial regulators (SEC etc). but i think there's a big difference between financial crimes (which are nowadays almost always dealt with in civil not criminal court) and something like trafficking in kids, rape, child pornography. his symbiotic relationship is possible precisely because a lot of the shyt the regulators/prosecutors do in helping perpetrators evade criminal liability is perfectly legal and even incentivized (e.g too big to fail) but there is too much smoke suggesting something much more nefarious than a reasonable disagreement over charging. the mfer tried to hide it from victims and then included blanket immunity to all unindicted co-conspirators
yes, any prosecutor is going to have cases where people will disagree with strategy, legal interpretation etc - but that's ridiculous to say that all DA's or prosecutors will have instances where they acted similarly to acosta at some point in their career.
observer.com
It Sure Looks Like Jeffrey Epstein Was a Spy—But Whose?
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Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 8, 2004. Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images
In terms of scandals, the sordid saga of Jeffrey Epstein has it all. Mysterious gaudy fortunes. Jet-setting debauchery. Lots of pretty girls—including very young girls. Sex and more sex, not necessarily legal or consensual. Add a battalion of VIPs, including billionaires, A-list celebrities, royalty and no less than two American presidents.
The only thing missing was espionage… and it’s not missing anymore.
SEE ALSO: Victoria’s Secret Founder Loses $53M Over Ties With Jeffrey Epstein
This week, the Epstein story took center stage for all the reasons listed above. The surprise arrest of the 66-year-old admitted pedophile on Saturday night at New Jersey’s Teterboro airport, as he was headed home from Paris, reopened it all. The case had jumped in and out of the news since 2007, when Epstein admitted his affection for underage women to the Department of Justice, in exchange for lenient treatment.
The media has been agog since the weekend, as details of Epstein’s shocking private life are emerging. Public horror has followed—another alleged victim came forward just today, claiming Epstein raped her in 2002, when she was 15—and more seems certain to come.
The Justice Department unsealed its new indictment against Epstein on Monday, which focuses on that 2002 to 2005 period, when Epstein allegedly ran a secret empire devoted to moving underage girls between his New York and Florida residences, in order to sexually exploit them. Epstein’s life will never be the same.
But what was that life, really? That’s a key question which nobody has been able to publicly answer. How Epstein maintained his fantastically extravagant lifestyle has long been a topic of speculation and mystery. He claimed to have made his vast fortune as a financial guru to the super-rich, but nearly all of his clients were unnamed. Moreover, in a business where overwork is standard, Epstein seemed to have unlimited free time to pursue his avocation of obtaining “massages” from young women.
A major hint was dropped this week by Vicky Ward, the intrepid investigative journalist who has tried to expose the ugly reality behind the Epstein facade longer than anyone. In a report for the Daily Beast, Ward shed light on the Justice Department’s 2007 non-prosecution agreement with Epstein, that sweetest of sweet deals, since it got Epstein a laughably lenient sentence—for crimes which any normal person would have gone away for decades after admitting to.
Alexander Acosta, the current U.S. Labor Secretary, is in the hot seat, since a dozen years ago he was the U.S. Attorney for South Florida who cut that deal with Epstein. Ward explained the background of that deal, which is now a noose for Acosta. Specifically, she elaborated that the Epstein issue came up when Acosta was appointed to the cabinet by President Donald Trump. Ward writes:
He’d cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein’s attorneys because he had “been told” to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.)
Wait, what?
So, Acosta, according to himself, backed off on prosecuting Epstein back in 2007, despite the possession of ample evidence proving his guilt, because he “belonged to intelligence.” Whose intelligence, exactly? is the first of many questions that arise here.
This claim was met with an appropriate degree of skepticism, and Acosta had a chance to explain what he meant in a press conference this afternoon. On camera, Acosta maintained that he did the best he could with that case, while admitting that it hardly looks like a fair punishment now.
The intelligence issue came up, and Acosta’s response was bizarre. He punted on setting the record straight, instead proffering this strange word salad when asked about Ward’s reporting:
So there has been reporting to that effect and let me say, there’s been reporting to a lot of effects in this case, not just now but over the years and, again, I would hesitant to take this reporting as fact. This was a case that was brought by our office, it was brought based on the facts and I look at the reporting and others, I can’t address it directly because of our guidelines, but I can tell you that a lot of reporting is going down rabbit holes.
To anyone acquainted with our nation’s capital, that’s a non-denial denial of an epic kind. Given the chance to refute Ward’s report, specifically that the Epstein case involved intelligence matters, Acosta did nothing of the sort. Indeed, he functionally admitted that it’s true.
What then can we conclude at this point? It appears that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in intelligence work, of some kind, for someone—and it probably wasn’t American intelligence either. The U.S. Intelligence Community is lenient about the private habits of high-value agents or informants, but they won’t countenance running sex trafficking rings for minors on American soil, for years. While it’s plausible that Epstein was sharing some information with the FBI—many criminals do so to buy themselves some insurance—it’s implausible that he was mainly working for the Americans.
Who are the suspects then? It seems awfully coincidental that Epstein’s best pal and business partner for decades has been Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and daughter of the late Robert Maxwell, the media mogul who died under mysterious circumstances in 1991. Something of a Bond villain turned real life, Maxwell loved the limelight, despite being a swindler and a spy. British counterintelligence assessed that Maxwell was working for the KGB, while pervasive allegations that he was working for Mossad too are equally plausible.
Since the lines between Russian intelligence, Israeli intelligence and organized crime can get remarkably blurry in practice, as I’ve explained previously, assessing whom Epstein’s been working for may prove difficult to answer with any precision. But we have a suspect list to start asking questions.
What’s not in doubt is that a sex trafficking ring centered on minors, which involved numerous global VIPs in compromising situations, would be of high interest to quite a few intelligence services. The Epstein saga seems certain to get even more unpleasant and interesting.
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Its so funny how Deutsche bank just tucked its tail and ran home this week 
cut 1/5th of the whole damn bank
cut 1/5th of the whole damn bank
:NoCollusionbreh:this comment on one of the nyt articles
absolutely, especially when it comes to the financial regulators (SEC etc). but i think there's a big difference between financial crimes (which are nowadays almost always dealt with in civil not criminal court) and something like trafficking in kids, rape, child pornography. his symbiotic relationship is possible precisely because a lot of the shyt the regulators/prosecutors do in helping perpetrators evade criminal liability is perfectly legal and even incentivized (e.g too big to fail) but there is too much smoke suggesting something much more nefarious than a reasonable disagreement over charging. the mfer tried to hide it from victims and then included blanket immunity to all unindicted co-conspirators
yes, any prosecutor is going to have cases where people will disagree with strategy, legal interpretation etc - but that's ridiculous to say that all DA's or prosecutors will have instances where they acted similarly to acosta at some point in their career.
When federal prosecutors are going against a Mexican national with 40 pounds of crystal and 10 pounds of fentanyl, it's a done deal, most of the time, even with a decent defense attorney. When they are going against the rich and powerful it's like a high stakes poker game, and my feeling is that Acosta got punked and folded, his hand, which may have been stronger or weaker than we know, as of now.
GnauzBookOfRhymes
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If we were talking about financial crimes, political corruption etc then absolutely.
But people aren't skating from child molestation, trafficking etc UNLESS there is more to the story than just good lawyering. Not only that but more importantly is that it wasnt just Acosta that let him skate....happened at every level.
Case in point..George Nader has been getting busted for child porn etc for literally decades across multiple continents
Mueller witness was convicted on child porn charge
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
Cotdamn.
Who is his Fairy Godmother??
https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/nypd-...jeffrey-epstein-skip-judge-ordered-check-ins/
Who is his Fairy Godmother??
https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/nypd-...jeffrey-epstein-skip-judge-ordered-check-ins/
NYPD let convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein skip judge-ordered check-ins
By Elizabeth Rosner, Tina Moore, Larry Celona and Bruce Golding
July 10, 2019 | 9:19pm | Updated
Jeffrey EpsteinDavid McGlynn
Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein never once checked in with city cops in the eight-plus years since a Manhattan judge ordered him to do so every 90 days — and the NYPD says it’s fine with that.
After being labeled a worst-of-the-worst, Level 3 sex offender in 2011, Epstein should have reported in person to verify his address 34 times before he was arrested Saturday on federal child sex-trafficking charges.
Violating requirements of the state’s 1996 Sex Offender Registration Act — including checking in with law enforcement — is a felony punishable by up to four years in prison for a first offense.
Subsequent violations carry a sentence of up to seven years each.
But the NYPD hasn’t required the billionaire financier — who owns a $77 million Upper East Side townhouse — to check in since he registered as a sex offender in New York over the controversial 2008 plea bargain he struck in Florida amid allegations he sexually abused scores of underage girls in his Palm Beach mansion.
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