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blondebanshee

(353 posts)
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 09:09 AM Jul 2019

We Found Red Flags All Over Jeffrey Epstein's Jail Records

A FOIA of the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office work-release and visitor logs for Jeffrey Epstein turned up some troubling inconsistencies

Jeffrey Epstein’s lenient 2008 conviction for his sexual assaults on adolescent girls may be described as one of the greatest travesties of justice in recent history. Brad Edwards, an attorney for many of Epstein’s victims, announced last week that Epstein continued to prey on young women while serving his sentence in Palm Beach. Unlike other sex offenders in Florida, Epstein had his own wing of the Palm Beach County jail and liberal work release policies. Due to this new information, the Miami Herald reported, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) has suddenly opened an internal affairs investigation of Epstein’s incarceration.

As part of my research on the Epstein case, I sent a FOIA request earlier this summer to the PBSO concerning Jeffrey Epstein (inmate number W35755). I asked for two records: Work-Release List entries and the Visitor Information Log. Six days later, I received an email requesting that I phone to clarify my request. I thought this was strange because “Work-Release List” and “Visitor Information Log” are the exact names of documents that I already knew the PBSO maintained.

[link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-found-red-flags-all-over-jeffrey-epsteins-jail-records/?via=twitter_page|

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marble falls

(57,081 posts)
1. Jeffrey Epstein did not operate in a vacuum. He had plenty of knowing and unknowing ...
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 09:14 AM
Jul 2019

who should have known accomplices.

There's plenty of blame and culpability to go around.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. We now know that conservative 0.1%ers have been
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 10:05 AM
Jul 2019

systematically implanting their agents into our government, including courts, for over 40 years now. This is a genuine conspiracy against the people.

Of course their RW agents by nature are corrupt and usually, like Kavanaugh, really nasty customers all around, no surprise that these malignant implants use their power in a lot of ways harmful to society, not just to transfer wealth and power to the few.

We also know that Russia, which for decades has been exporting corruption as a weapon to weaken and destroy other nations, has been assisting this conspiracy, both cooperatively and on its own.

And here we are. This is an era of expanding awareness and support for all human rights, including our own as citizens and creators of wealth, when we should have advanced greatly from the bad old days of old-fashioned corruption. Yet institutionalization corruption has become far worse because of this occult conspiracy.

But it's not occult any more, of course, and we have a job to do.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." Nancy Pelosi (!) quoting a great liberal from the last time this giant problem threatened to destroy our nation.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,342 posts)
13. is the Epstein thread the one that leads to unravelling?
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 11:24 AM
Jul 2019

It should connect some of the worst elements, but that requires enough uncorrupted people still in place to follow the threads where they lead.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
15. Wish and hope! At least it has to be yet another last straw
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 11:39 AM
Jul 2019

for a few more here and there.

If fate were grabbable, I give it a giant hug and kiss for not wiring me RW reactionary, these days RW anything.

H2O Man

(73,537 posts)
10. Right.
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 11:20 AM
Jul 2019

I've been looking into an interesting part of this case regarding who Epstein was being paid by, including talking to an old friend who always provides me with good information and leads. This is even uglier than it appears on the surface. I'm making an outline in my mind that will become my next essay on this forum.

H2O Man

(73,537 posts)
16. I left a hint
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 11:43 AM
Jul 2019

in post #12. The republican interests -- and that includes some corporate entities -- are trying to make it appear that "everyone" hung out with Epstein, including some Democrats. I'm focusing not only on "how" this was allowed to happen, but "why." And that falls snuggly into the republican's lap.

marble falls

(57,081 posts)
18. I thought Bill Clinton's statement a few weeks ago was well said and documented ...
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 11:46 AM
Jul 2019

especially when compared to Trump's and Alan Dershowitz's denials.

H2O Man

(73,537 posts)
19. I agree 100%
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 11:55 AM
Jul 2019

There is an important key to this, that has been discussed a little in the media, but not in the depth it requires. In part, it has to do with AG Barr's father hiring the unqualified Epstein at the private school. But that actually opens the door to Elder Barr's past history of employment ....both before and after his stint with OSS. Why, for example, did the governmnt tap him?

brewens

(13,582 posts)
3. I posted on here somewhere that one of my questions was if he even really always
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 09:34 AM
Jul 2019

went back to the jail to sleep like he was supposed to? I was hoping someone would analyze the paperwork to see if anything stunk. I really thought there was no way he didn't have pet jailers that would just sign him in while he was back at his mansion with his girls.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
4. OMG....."Palm Beach Sheriff's officers provided private security for Jeffrey Epstein"
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 09:45 AM
Jul 2019

Texting was a level 3 sex offender the worst kind of sex offender and the Palm Beach sheriff's office was providing security for him so he can go on work releases

This is beyond disgusting I'm sure they knew about this before this Epstein kerfuffle started recently

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
7. +1, it's time to look at bank accounts of politicians and people like this
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 10:35 AM
Jul 2019

... cuz if you're not taking money than they should be put in mental wards for ruining their lives with no gain.

H2O Man

(73,537 posts)
12. It's worth considering
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 11:23 AM
Jul 2019

if Acosta would have taken it upon himself to make such a terrible and controversial decision on his own. It would seem obvious that the fellow who was Attorney General at that time had to sign off on it. And, for that matter, that the AG would check with the fellow above him.

MagickMuffin

(15,937 posts)
9. Money was probably not the only perks the PBSO received
Tue Jul 23, 2019, 11:17 AM
Jul 2019

I'm almost certain they were among the rapists.

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