Victims: Feds Hid 'Sweetheart' Deal for Sex Offender With Deep Political Ties

[Helen Borg]

Source: ABC News

New court filings are bringing fresh attention to a Florida sex scandal that could become grist for political trouble in the 2016 Presidential campaign.

The new legal filings allege that federal prosecutors in Florida “repeatedly” and “intentionally” violated the rights of dozens of teenage sex abuse victims by secretly negotiating an “extraordinarily lenient” deal with a wealthy Palm Beach financier known in the past to have socialized with powerful business and political figures -- including former President Bill Clinton and current GOP front-runner Donald Trump.

Prosecutors went to great lengths to keep secret the non-prosecution agreement reached in 2007 with Jeffrey Epstein, attorneys for the victims allege, “because of the strong objection they would have faced from victims of Epstein’s abuse, and because of the public criticism that would have resulted from allowing a politically-connected billionaire who had sexually abused more than 30 minor girls to escape ... with only a county court jail sentence.”

Throughout the negotiations -- and for nearly a year after the agreement was signed -- the victims were kept in the dark, their attorneys said, strung along as government lawyers promised victims they were still investigating even long after they had cut Epstein an “indulgent” deal.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/victims-feds-hid-sweetheart-deal-sex-offender-deep/story?id=36843144

[LiberalArkie]

1. Opps

[sarge43]

2. Opps critical mass should be reached soon.

[LiberalArkie]

4. I was thinking last year that this felt like it might be like the 68 convention in Chicago.

Everyone said, "nah. It will be decided a long time before."

[Wilms]

3. Yes. It is a very special story. n/t

[yourout]

5. The lead prosecutor should join Epstein for an extended stay in the crowbar motel.

We have two very different justice systems based on income.

[Kip Humphrey]

6. Hey M$M: Ask tRUMP how many times he visited Epstein's island where the teen boys & girls were kept

[Andy823]

7. So then

The allegations starte in 2005 and the agreement was reached in 2007, so that was during the Bush years. I wonder if those prosecutors would have been appointed by Bush, and if Bush's AG had any knowledge of the non-prosectuion agreement?

[AwakeAtLast]

10. These are great questions

Unfortunately money buys silence.

[awoke_in_2003]

23. The wealthy

can do whatever they want.

[Sienna86]

8. Horrific behavior by the AG's office.

Need to read more e about this.

[Helen Borg]

19. This is the guy.

https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/flyer.do?personId=62762

A little bit of history here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/bill-clinton/bill-clinton-and-jeffrey-epstein-908671

[SoapBox]

9. It's so big AND disgusting that it's hard for me to get my head around...

how this was hidden away because they didn't want to cause trouble for a billionaire, political figure and who knows for sure who.

Thanks MSM for doing such investigative work over the years...not.

Disgusting.

[creatives4innovation]

14. Prince Andrew is involved as well

I first heard about this in the British media with regard to Prince Andrew's involvement. It was said that a prosecution was unlikely because he would have diplomatic immunity. It's a filthy mess.

[scottie55]

11. All Ya Gotta Do Is Write Some Checks

And all yer problems go away!

Anyone interested in change here?

[dorkzilla]

12. Ruh-roh

[creatives4innovation]

13. Would like to see this investigated

A deposition of Dershowitz from October last year contained testimony on Bill Clinton. Here's some background: Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire’s Sex Jet

[billhicks76]

15. Pedophile Ring In High Ranking Places

This is about pedophile rings used to induct members of both political parties and the fields of law, finance and the military to blackmail those involved. They all essentially blackmail each other so no one steps out of line or else the video comes out. Sandusky was sacrificed but many many more are involved. A FEDERAL DA disappeared with his car found in a lake with the hard drive stripped from his computer after he hid in a closet and heard Sandusky confess to one of his victims mothers. The Governor who was the Attorney General of PA at that time blew the whole thing off and said DA Gricar just decided to run away from home. And the Feds??? Of course they did nothing because their bosses are involved as they always are.

[Hoppy]

16. It would have been a problem for Hillary if Bill continued but she told him to "Cut it out."

[wheniwasincongress]

17. So stupid of Bill Clinton to continue hanging around him

knowing full well that Hillary wanted to run for President.

[scottie55]

18. What Is It Nancy Pelosi Said? Drain The Swamp?

There is more swamp here than we have sump pumps for.

I really doubt Bubba had anything to do with this.

This was all Bush, and his pack of....

[Vinca]

20. Hillary was away from home an awful lot while she was Secretary of State.

It makes you wonder. A leopard doesn't change its spots.

[rafeh1]

21. We have a criminal justice system

Where the prime directive is innocent until you run out of money. Money = innocence

[bemildred]

22. What do you do when the prosecutors are the problem? nt

[yurbud]

24. pedophiles get a pass but political prisoner Don Siegelman rots in prison

Further proof that pardons are exclusively for sale.