Jeffrey Epstein's Pilots Are Subpoenaed in Sex-Trafficking Investigation
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have subpoenaed Jeffrey Epsteins longtime personal pilots, according to people familiar with the matter, as investigators seek to question the financiers employees in the wake of his indictment on sex-trafficking charges.
The grand jury subpoenas were served on the pilots earlier this month after Mr. Epsteins arrest on July 6, some of the people said. Mr. Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after he had returned from Paris on a private jet.
A lawyer for one of the pilots confirmed the subpoena, but declined to provide further details. It couldnt be determined what information the subpoenas sought, how many pilots were subpoenaed or whether the pilots have agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
Testimony from the pilots could be used by federal investigators in their efforts to corroborate accounts from Mr. Epsteins accusers. They could also provide detail on Mr. Epsteins travels and his associates. Some of the pilots were responsible for keeping flight logs of passengers who flew on Mr. Epsteins private jet, according to court filings.
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/jeffrey-epsteins-pilots-are-subpoenaed-in-sex-trafficking-investigation-11564142402?mod=e2tw
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)ck4829
(35,094 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,342 posts)Yikes!
Lochloosa
(16,071 posts)ck4829
(35,094 posts)rzemanfl
(29,571 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Cannot imagine this wouldn't be involved.
rzemanfl
(29,571 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Though of course I want to scream, "why didn't anyone in his orbit sing before now?!?!?!"
rzemanfl
(29,571 posts)ck4829
(35,094 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)Epstein is never getting out of jail again. It's just so disgraceful that he was allowed to do this in plain sight for so long. How many lives ruined?
ck4829
(35,094 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Forward movement is HAPPENING
Dig deep, no hesitating
NO MERCY
ck4829
(35,094 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Weird, huh?
Link to tweet
Baltimike
(4,148 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)ck4829
(35,094 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)is recorded in Airport Log books as well as the Nature of those landings. You just do not land Business Jets in a Hay Field to avoid Recording your flight data. Annual Inspections Data as well as all Fuel Records are Public Data.
Public Data Records of Flights is how a Activist Group was able to bust the CIA and Government Contractors moving so called high value Prisoner's from Iraq to Black Sites around the world.
ck4829
(35,094 posts)fierywoman
(7,696 posts)pecosbob
(7,545 posts)onetexan
(13,066 posts)pecosbob
(7,545 posts)Baltimike
(4,148 posts)ck4829
(35,094 posts)DemoTex
(25,405 posts)I'm not sure that passenger manifests are required under FAR-91 (FAA rules that Epstein's jets probably operated under). The number of passengers on board any particular flight is required for an IFR or VFR flight plan, but not the names.
HOWEVER, if the aircraft is being operated under a buisness umbrella and tax deductions taken (which most surely was the case), then IRS rules require a passenger manifest complete with the business nature of the passengers/flight.
Minor point, granted.
samplegirl
(11,504 posts)Hoping Clintons on board frequently.
lapucelle
(18,356 posts)The best they could do was come up with inflated numbers of flights by counting each leg of multi-stop visits to Africa and Asia by Bill Clinton in connection with Clinton Foundation conferences as separate instances of "being on the plane".