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real Cannabis calm

(1,124 posts)
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 01:09 AM Aug 2019

THE EPSTEIN REALITY:

A new New York law will enable Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims to sue for damages

The Child Victim Act was initially intended to help abuse victims sue the Roman Catholic Church.

By Corky Siemaszko




Jeffrey Epstein's estate is likely to be hit with a barrage of lawsuits when a new law in New York state aimed to help child sex abuse victims goes into effect Wednesday.

The Child Victims Act gives people a one-year window to sue for sex abuse damages, regardless of when the alleged acts happened. In addition to that, the law also extends the statute of limitations for criminal charges against child sex abusers.

“While Epstein is dead, the cases against him will live on,” New York state Sen. Brady Hoylman told NBC News on Monday, two days after the wealthy financier and accused sex trafficker was found dead in his jail cell... “Hopefully, they will reveal why his crimes were hidden for so long and who enabled him to hide from the law.”

New York lawyer Roberta Kaplan confirmed an earlier Reuters report that she intends to sue on behalf of a woman who was recruited in 2002 at age 14 to engage in sex acts with Epstein and was paid hundreds of dollars each time.

And those are just two of the lawyers who will be suing Epstein, a moneyman who was friends with President Donald Trump... https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-new-york-law-will-enable-jeffrey-epstein-s-alleged-n1041446

By the way, during multiple civil lawsuits, nothing will be hidden from the media.

"STAY TUNED"


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Laffy Kat

(16,377 posts)
1. I've gotten so cynical lately...
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 01:21 AM
Aug 2019

I'm thinking nothing much will come of the investigation and it will eventually fade away like everything else. All the outrage from Barr is just an act. The rich, powerful men will continue to evade the law. They all look out for each other.

real Cannabis calm

(1,124 posts)
4. How did Epstein obtain a rope or place to hang himself? Here's the facts:
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 01:16 PM
Aug 2019
How did this happen in a secure federal facility, where anything that a prisoner might use to commit suicide would be confiscated?
Epstein, 66, was in his federal jail cell in downtown Manhattan but was not on suicide watch at the time of his death, multiple people familiar with the investigation told NBC News. He had apparently hanged himself, and was found unresponsive at around 6:30 a.m. ET.

This had already occurred; so precautions should have been increased, instead of Epstein being removed from suicide watch.

Epstein's death comes a little over two weeks after he was found injured and in a fetal position in his cell at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. He was semiconscious with marks on his neck at the time. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-found-dead-nyc-jail-n1041081?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

‘Killer cop’ inmate says he heard nothing on morning of Jeffrey Epstein’s death
By Lia Eustachewich August 13, 2019 | 9:30am | Updated

An inmate in the same unit where Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself heard nothing the morning of his death — but “knows a heck of a lot about what went on,” his lawyer said in a new report.

Nicholas Tartaglione, an ex-Westchester cop who faces the death penalty in a quadruple homicide upstate, was being held a few cells away from Epstein on Aug. 10, when he was found unresponsive around 6:30 a.m.

“Nobody heard anything. It was a silent act,” his lawyer Bruce Barket told NBC News.

Tartaglione was Epstein’s cellmate at the Manhattan Correctional Center when the convicted pedophile was first found nearly unconscious on the floor of his cell with injuries to his neck in July. https://nypost.com/2019/08/13/killer-cop-inmate-says-he-heard-nothing-on-morning-of-jeffrey-epsteins-death/

real Cannabis calm

(1,124 posts)
3. Trump doesn't look out for anyone except himself...
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 11:57 AM
Aug 2019

Michael Cohen, his "fixer" kept him out of trouble for years; and Trump let him fall faster than a Trump University student.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
8. Epstein's arrest was surely ordered by Barr; Epstein was becoming a threat.
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 02:49 PM
Aug 2019

Who knows what else Barr ordered?

real Cannabis calm

(1,124 posts)
5. More actual facts on Epstein:
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 02:20 PM
Aug 2019
CNN Morning Briefing
Tuesday 08.13.19

The questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein's death have uncovered what employees say is a broader problem of short staffing and budget constraints in federal prisons. Attorney General William Barr said "serious irregularities" were found at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, long thought to be a well-run facility that has been used to house high-profile prisoners who require highly secure conditions. However, employees at the prison gave accounts of 18-hour workdays, mandatory overtime and prison guard shifts being covered by workers who aren't prison guards. In the case of Epstein, a person familiar with the matter said at least one of the two employees on duty at the time of his suicide was not part of the regular detention workforce.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
6. How did Epstein have access to something he could use to hang himself?
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 02:33 PM
Aug 2019

Shoe laces, a sheet, belt?? Who lets a prisoner with known attempts at suicide have access to ANYTHING he could use to harm himself?? It does not make sense. Suicide watch or not, just take away everything he could misuse to harm himself.

Someone allowed him to have something in his cell he could use and then stayed away long enough for him to hang himself. OR for someone else to stage it like suicide. Is there video tape? Why not?? This could end the controversy of how he died.

My first thought when I heard he was dead was that something very big was about to be revealed and they needed a major distraction....what bigger than his successful suicide? Who would benefit most from Epstein being dead??

Dead men tell no tales, do they.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
9. Dead men don't tell much, but the circumstances and evidence will!
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 02:50 PM
Aug 2019

Who knows how many sex videos were in Epstein's vaults and devices?

Who knows how many prominent men are featured in "starring" roles?

Bill "Coverup" Barr will surely bury any evidence he finds, but Epstein was probably a lot more clever than Barr or Trump.

Kid Berwyn

(14,869 posts)
10. Barr and Client 1 avoid public testimony, too.
Tue Aug 13, 2019, 04:38 PM
Aug 2019

An Epstein trial would bring up Epstein’s direct connections to Barr’s dad hiring him at a prep school and Trump’s observation about liking women “on the younger side.”

So now, with no possibility of Epstein talking, let alone flipping, there’s no problem for the AG and his depraved client.

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