FBI wanted to arrest Epstein while he was judging a beauty pageant. The plan was overruled

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NEW: FBI wanted to arrest Epstein in early 2007, fearing he was actively preying on minors. Two senior federal prosecutors in Miami overruled them.

FBI wanted to arrest Epstein while he was judging a beauty pageant. The plan was overruled
A Justice Department look-back report into its abortive 2008 prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had planned to arrest Jeffrey Epstein in May 2007, but...
miamiherald.com
8:50 AM · Nov 14, 2020

[Me.]

1. Names PLease?

Acosta?

[empedocles]

2. bushies?

[PatSeg]

3. I'm assuming that the "two federal prosecutors"

were either bought or were guilty of associating with Epstein. A lot of powerful people seemed to like going to Epstein's parties.

[Me.]

5. Don't Know What The Payoff Was But Acoosta Was In It Up To His Neck

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“A Justice Department look-back report into its abortive 2008 prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had planned to arrest Jeffrey Epstein in May 2007, but pulled back after the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, led by former Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, frowned on the plan.

The report also concludes that Epstein wasn’t assisting the federal government in prosecuting Wall Street traders behind the collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns or serving as an “intelligence asset,” long rumored to be reasons for his notoriously lenient treatment.

That determination raises questions about an FBI document that seems to identify Epstein as providing information to the bureau.

That was an “urban myth” federal prosecutor Ann Marie Villafaña told her superiors at the time, according to the new DOJ report, which said it found no evidence that he was a government witness.”

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article247183924.html#storylink=cpy

[PatSeg]

7. Whoa, this sounds far more complicated

than I thought. I wonder how many exposes will emerge from all this.

[Me.]

8. It Goes Deep

and I have to wonder if Acosta was one of Epstein's "Friends" and if there was any blackmail in this.

[PatSeg]

9. I smell blackmail all over the place

So many powerful people get really careless, thinking they'll never be held accountable.

[bullwinkle428]

4. Shrub's DOJ. How close were his associates tied to Epstein's sex crimes, is now the

big question in my mind.

[Klaralven]

6. Most likely Epstein was an intelligence asset, Maxwell was his handler, and Wexner was his funder.

[crickets]

10. Damn. K&R for visibility.