In Case You Missed This... Billionaire Pedophile Hedge Fund Manager Gets Slap On Wrist...

[WillyT]

Behind Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Sweetheart Deal
by Conchita Sarnoff and Lee Aitken - DailyBeast
March 25th, 2011

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It is proving difficult for hedge fund manager and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to avoid the glare of media scrutiny – British tabloids most recently cried foul over the shabby royal comportment of Prince Andrew in agreeing to be the guest of an acknowledged pedophile. But the larger mystery surrounding Epstein, who completed a 13-month sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2010, has remained unsolved: How did the hedge fund mogul manage to finesse the kinds of sex-crime allegations typically associated with a hefty prison sentence?



For the first time, the U.S. attorney who oversaw the Epstein prosecution in Florida’s Southern District is commenting publicly on the case, in a letter released exclusively to The Daily Beast. This letter, along with other correspondence unearthed in our reporting, sheds new light on the no-holds-barred battle waged by Epstein’s lawyers to evade the full exercise of prosecutorial power.

Some of the most shocking allegations against Epstein surfaced only after the conclusion of an FBI probe, in civil suits brought by his victims: for example, the claim that three 12-year-old French girls were delivered to him as a birthday present. But the feds did identify roughly 40 young women, most of them underage at the time, who described being lured to Epstein’s Palm Beach home on the pretense of giving a “massage” for money, then pressured into various sex acts, as well as the “Balkan sex slave” Epstein allegedly boasted of purchasing from her family when she was just 14. More recently, a big cash payment from Mail on Sunday coaxed one of Epstein’s main accusers out of anonymity to describe what she claims were her years as a teenage sex toy. This victim, Virginia Roberts, produced a photo of herself with Prince Andrew in 2001 and reported that Epstein paid her $15,000 to meet the prince. Then 17 years old, she claims that she was abused by Epstein and “loaned” to his friends from the age of 15.

Sex crimes of the kind Roberts alleges took place typically carry a term of 10 to 20 years in federal prison. Yet when all was said and done, Epstein served his scant year-plus-one-month in a private wing of the Palm Beach jail and was granted a 16-hour-per-day free pass to leave the premises for work. A Daily Beast examination into the inner workings of the Epstein defense strategy reveals how the fear and intimidation experienced by victims during pre-trial proceedings, combined with a ferocious, protracted campaign to undermine the prosecution – summed up as “the best defense is an all-star offense” – culminated in a set of charges that became a virtual slap on the wrist for the globe-trotting financier.

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Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-25/jeffrey-epstein-how-the-billionaire-pedophile-got-off-easy/full/

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[Taverner]

1. Oh but he's a good pedophile! He's rich, and we all know the rich are chosen by god

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[mod mom]

3. Is he a registered sec offender now? or was that bought off as well?

[Sal Minella]

6. Ackshully, "sec offenders" are treated much more deferentially

than sex offenders.

The law pretty much ignores the crimes of "sec offenders" and just lets them go their merry way

[Selatius]

10. Yes, he is registered, but the point is moot. He is a free man.

If he were a poor man and were found to have messed with 40 girls, he'd be in prison for life. Money runs this country, and it will continue to do so for as long as the poor and working class accept it.

[leftstreet]

18. +1

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Who says money can't buy happiness?

[Newest Reality]

5. Rule of law?

Hahaha! I am surprised he even had to do sleepovers in prison.

When they don't apply anymore, equally, across-the-board, they are not our laws anymore. The law is arbitrary and biased. When they are not enforced as they should be, based on class, then that government is not our government anymore.

Time to play catch-up.

[snagglepuss]

7. Not what I wanted to hear. What a despicable pig. nt

[anarch]

8. privilege = private + law

there is a separate set of laws applied to the wealthy as opposed to the common people...that's what it is to be privileged.

[L0oniX]

9. DUH! Laws are for us little people.

[RadiationTherapy]

11. Well, he may as well get plastic surgery now.

Because this story and his picture are going far and wide. His face will be rearranged one way or another.

[CanonRay]

12. One law for them, another for the rest of us peasants

This is becoming clearer and clearer to me...and it is very dangerous for everyone, including the rich. Perception that life isn't "fair" and never will be is a great base upon which to build a revolution. The politicos and judges who kiss the ass of the wealthy and powerful had better become cognizant of what they are sowing.

[Starry Messenger]

13. When have laws ever applied to rich & powerful people?

[Chris_Texas]

14. damn, give the poor guy a break! Why be a millionaire if you cannot have slave girls?

[louslobbs]

15. Laws? The rich don't need no stinking laws. What a filthy dirty douche bag

this rich pig is.
Lou

[WillyT]

16. Make Him Famous, Kick !!!

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[WillyT]

17. G'Night Kick !!!

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[Hannah Bell]

19. kick

not only pedophilia sounds like trafficking as well.

[bvar22]

20. Yes, Virginia. There ARE "Two Americas."

John Edwards, warts and all, was correct.
I am glad he campaigned on this message,
and I "hope" someone picks up the "Two Americas" torch in 2012.




Who will STAND UP and FIGHT for THIS American Majority?
Lofty Rhetoric, Empty Promises, and Excuses are meaningless now.

"By their WORKS you will know them,"
And by their WORKS they will be held accountable.