CRIME EPSTEIN PEDOPHILE CASE DEAL REVERSED IN COURT DECISION

[Doomer Doug]

This case has broad implications for the Democrat Party, since Bill Clinton is shown logged into the flight manifest to Epstein's island where underage girls were abused and raped. He flew there 25 times, which can be proven.

It seems a judge just ruled the "plea deal," done by Trump's Secretary of Labor was a sweetheart deal, designed to cover up further evidence of corruption and sexual perversion from senior Democratic Party Leaders, as well as Prince Andrew of the House of Winsor. AGAIN, THIS IS HUGE, HUGE, HUGE. EPSTEIN ACTUALLY FACED MULTIPLE DECADES IN JAIL, BUT GOT A DEAL THAT ONLY RESULTED IN 13 MONTHS IN JAIL.

the link is here

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/21/judge-alex-acosta-broke-law-jeff-epstein-sex-case/

Judge: Plea Deal in Jeffrey Epstein Sex Trafficking Case Was Illegal

21 Feb 20193,987
2:32

A U.S. District judge on Thursday ruled that federal prosecutors illegally signed a plea agreement with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and hid it from his more than two dozen underage victims.

“Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him.,’’ wrote U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra of Palm Beach County. “Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others.’’

Epstein, now 66, reached a nonprosecution deal in 2008 with then-Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta’s office to secretly end a federal sex abuse investigation involving at least 40 teenage girls that could have landed him behind bars for life. He instead pleaded guilty to state charges, spent 13 months in jail, paid settlements to victims and is a registered sex offender.
Acosta, now President Donald Trump’s labor secretary, has defended the deal as appropriate but has not commented since the recent round of stories. He was asked about the case during his Senate confirmation hearings for the Cabinet post.

“At the end of the day, based on the evidence, professionals within a prosecutor’s office decided that a plea that guarantees someone goes to jail, that guarantees he register generally and guarantees other outcomes, is a good thing,” he said.

Earlier February, the Justice Department opened an investigation into federal prosecutors’ handling of the plea deal.

The department’s Office of Professional Responsibility wrote in a letter to Sen. Ben Sasse that it would examine whether professional misconduct occurred in the highly publicized case of Epstein. The letter cited a series of recent articles by the Miami Herald that focused new attention on how the deal came about.

Sasse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who has twice asked the Justice Department to investigate the case, welcomed the news.

“Jeffrey Epstein is a child rapist and there’s not a single mom or dad in America who shouldn’t be horrified by the fact that he received a pathetically soft sentence,” Sasse said in an email. “The victims of Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring deserve this investigation — and so do the American people and members of law enforcement who work to put these kinds of monsters behind bars.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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[Blacknarwhal]

I wonder just how loud Epstein sang on that one.

 

[Housecarl]

Looks like critical mass is being reached....

 

[dstraito]

Makes you wonder if Epstein will sing a different tune of faced with more jail time or will he be afraid of being Arkancided?

You know there are blackmail tapes, probably secured in different places, some with a dead mans switch that if anything happens to the person controlling that info.

Talk about a dam breaking if some of these high profile tapes got out.

 

[Doomer Doug]

The real reason the "deal" was made was to suppress information that MULTIPLE senior level politicians, like Bill Clinton, and serious level elite types, like Prince Andrew were routinely engaged in RAPING UNDERAGE GIRLS. Oh yeah, TACTICAL NUKE LEVEL POLITICAL EXPOSURE THERE.

Yep, this court ruling means Epstein is now subject to the full fury of the entire legal penalty, which is DECADES IN PRISON. Weiner also got a sweetheart deal, which seems to be holding, but Epstein either needs a new coverup deal, or start singing about who did what, to whom, and when, and especially how old the whom were. The credible reports indicate Epstein and friends were routinely raping girls as young as 13.

At any rate, this one court decision has the potential to rip the rotten system wide open. Granted, the level of corruption involved, may mean the Deep State will not hold back in trying to cover it up. On the other hand, this is all out in the open now. I think Trump's Labor Secretary, the guy who gave Epstein this sweetheart deal is going to resign soon.

 

[Housecarl]

The real reason the "deal" was made was to suppress information that MULTIPLE senior level politicians, like Bill Clinton, and serious level elite types, like Prince Andrew were routinely engaged in RAPING UNDERAGE GIRLS. Oh yeah, TACTICAL NUKE LEVEL POLITICAL EXPOSURE THERE.

Yep, this court ruling means Epstein is now subject to the full fury of the entire legal penalty, which is DECADES IN PRISON. Weiner also got a sweetheart deal, which seems to be holding, but Epstein either needs a new coverup deal, or start singing about who did what, to whom, and when, and especially how old the whom were. The credible reports indicate Epstein and friends were routinely raping girls as young as 13.

At any rate, this one court decision has the potential to rip the rotten system wide open. Granted, the level of corruption involved, may mean the Deep State will not hold back in trying to cover it up. On the other hand, this is all out in the open now. I think Trump's Labor Secretary, the guy who gave Epstein this sweetheart deal is going to resign soon.

Seeing as the "Deep State" is as much a contentious alliance of convenience with competing interests as "public politics", this could be seen by some behind the curtain as an "opportunity" to secure their flanks and cut their exposure to a mess that could bring them down as well. Remember a successful parasite doesn't kill its host....

 

[Doomer Doug]

Here is another take on it.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/21/alexander-acosta-jeffrey-epstein/

Prosecutors Broke Fed Law With Secret Plea Deal For Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Judge Says
7:57 PM 02/21/2019 | US
Tim Pearce | Energy Reporter


A federal judge ruled Thursday that a team of federal prosecutors including Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta broke federal law when they brokered a plea deal with child molester and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, The Miami Herald reported.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra reviewed Epstein’s case and concluded that the team of prosecutors violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act by keeping secret the terms of the plea agreement from Epstein’s victims until after a judge had signed off on the deal. Otherwise, the victims could have chosen to veto to the deal.

“Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him,” Marra wrote, according to The Miami Herald. “Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others.” (RELATED: Sen. Sasse Launches Investigation Into DOJ Handling Of Epstein Case)

 

[Housecarl]

At some point the press' feeding frenzy of "if it bleeds it leads" will overcome the active politically driven shielding they've been doing for decades. Like a failing dam it starts with one crack that allows water to seep through and weaken the structure....

 

[alchemike]

More background...

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/katie-couric-woody-allen-jeffrey-epsteins-society-friends-close-ranks

Katie Couric, Woody Allen: Jeffrey Epstein's Society Friends Close Ranks
Alexandra Wolfe
04.01.11 5:29 PM ET

Jeffrey Epstein. Credit: Newscom
On the evening of December 2nd, 2010, a handful of America's media and entertainment elite—including TV anchors Katie Couric and George Stephanopoulos, comedienne Chelsea Handler, and director Woody Allen—convened around the dinner table of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It wasn't just any dining room, but part of a sprawling nine-story townhouse that once housed an entire preparatory school. And it wasn't just any sex offender, but an enigmatic billionaire who had once flown the likes of former President Bill Clinton and former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak around the world on his own Boeing 727. Last spring, Epstein completed a 13-month sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor in Palm Beach. Now he was hosting a party for his close friend, Britain's Prince Andrew, fourth in line to the throne.



When a photo later surfaced of the two men walking in Central Park that weekend, the British press seized on the story, spinning out weeks of headlines about the 16-year relationship between Epstein and Andrew, with salacious details of underage "masseuses" and even a cozy weekend in Balmoral. Members of parliament began calling for Prince Andrew's resignation as Britain's trade envoy, and when another photo surfaced of Andrew and a 17-year-old concubine Epstein had allegedly "loaned" him splashed across the London tabs, even Britain's business secretary wouldn't confirm the royal could keep his role. But the uproar over "The Prince and The Perv"—as the British headlines screamed—mysteriously drowned in the Mid-Atlantic. New Yorkers barely batted an eye about the scandal-mongering across the pond. "A jail sentence doesn't matter anymore," says David Patrick Columbia, founder of New York Social Diary. "The only thing that gets you shunned in New York society is poverty."

"In the Midwest, where I am from, he would be a social pariah," says Lorna Brett Howard, a political activist and wife of Irving Post Capital CEO and Aeropostale director John Howard. "What I see here is if you have big money or are famous then you get a pass."

“A jail sentence doesn’t matter anymore. The only thing that gets you shunned in New York society is poverty.”

Sure enough, that December night no one mentioned that their handsome host, a gray-haired 58-year-old financier with tanned skin and a joker smile, had just doled out millions of dollars in civil settlements to seven girls who allege that he paid them to perform erotic massages and demeaning sexual acts when they were underage. They are among the 40 victims turned up by an FBI investigation. But at the time, this particular swath of Epstein's elite Rolodex had no idea that the feted royal would soon renounce Epstein as a friend, nor that the royal's ex-wife, Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, would hysterically apologize for letting Epstein pay off some of her debts.



No, back then Epstein was mid-makeover. He had monarchy in-house and famous faces at his table. Former Bear Stearns CEO James Cayne had just endorsed Epstein on his science foundation's website (which has been since removed). It seemed Epstein had joined the ranks of former President Clinton, director Roman Polanski, and former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, whose sex scandals faded in comparison with their celebrity. The conventional wisdom among his friends was that Epstein has been victimized by greedy, morally dubious teenage girls and unscrupulous lawyers. "I've never condoned paying for sex, but if the young lady lied about her age it's her own fault," explained one socialite, who along with hedge-fund manager Wilbur Ross and real-estate magnate Leon Black hobnobbed with Epstein at a Southampton movie screening just two months after his release from "community control" in Florida.

Much of Epstein's entrée into New York society can be credited to Ghislaine Maxwell, the superbly well-connected daughter of the late press magnate Robert Maxwell. Epstein started dating her in the 1990s. The romantic relationship ended after a few years, but they have remained close ever since. Last week two victims publicly alleged that Ghislaine procured them for Epstein, one at age 15 from a Mar-a-Lago country club locker room. Virginia Roberts, now 27, who was Epstein's sexual plaything for several years, told the Mail on Sunday. "Ghislaine sent me to a dentist to have my teeth whitened and I went for Brazilian waxes. He wanted me to look pre-pubescent."

Now, New York friends are suddenly hesitant to talk about Maxwell. "She's a high-end 'fixer'," and so what? they ask. "No one in café society gives a damn that a 15-year-old girl gives massages," says one frequent charity-benefit guest. "She gets people into parties and runs around for a lot of people." As to the fallout from her association with Epstein, he says, "If you're Mike Huckabee it would matter but not if you're Ghislaine Maxwell."



The crowd at the events top publicist Peggy Siegal has organized for Epstein proves the point, at least behind closed doors. "I and many others that know him describe him as brilliant," says Siegal. "His unique mind is what attracts the world's smartest people to his home." Last September, with Siegal's help, Epstein hosted a Break Fast after Yom Kippur. A group of 120 friends brought their children over for a buffet dinner. One attendee, Jonathan Farkas, a New York real-estate heir, has known Epstein for 35 years and visited him while he was in prison. "The side I've been reading about is a side I don't know," he says. Farkas considers Epstein one of the smartest people he knows and often asks him for investment advice. "Unless I've seen it, I don't focus on it," he says.


"From a cerebral and business side he's worshipped," says socialite Debbie Bancroft. "He's incredibly charming and handsome. He's an extraordinary package so I can see why people don't want to believe what they hear. If people come out of jail and are still successful, people are very forgiving, shockingly so."

Renowned scientists whose research Epstein has generously funded through the years also stand by him. Professor Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and author of Quantum Man, has planned scientific conferences with Epstein in St. Thomas and remained close with him throughout his incarceration. "If anything, the unfortunate period he suffered has caused him to really think about what he wants to do with his money and his time, and support knowledge," says Krauss. "Jeffrey has surrounded himself with beautiful women and young women but they're not as young as the ones that were claimed. As a scientist I always judge things on empirical evidence and he always has women ages 19 to 23 around him, but I've never seen anything else, so as a scientist, my presumption is that whatever the problems were I would believe him over other people." Though colleagues have criticized him over his relationship with Epstein, Krauss insists, "I don't feel tarnished in any way by my relationship with Jeffrey; I feel raised by it."

Alexandra Wolfe is a former contributing editor to Conde Nast Portfolio. She has written for publications including The New York Times, New York magazine, The New York Observer, and The Wall Street Journal, where she wrote design and lifestyle features for the Weekend Journal section. She is working on a book called American Coddle , about America's culture of entitlement.

 

[Doomer Doug]

I'm not sure why this thread isn't getting more views and comments.

Here is a link to the latest on Bill Clinton's pervert buddy. Dershowitz is also implicated in the sexual perversion, which explains why he wants to restrict media access.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article226922729.html


Alan Dershowitz suggests curbing press access to hearing on Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse

By Julie K. Brown

March 01, 2019 05:09 PM,

Updated March 01, 2019 11:07 PM

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article226922729.html#storylink=cpy

A court hearing on whether to unseal sensitive documents involving the alleged sex trafficking of underage girls by Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein — and the possible involvement of his influential friends — will play out in a New York City courtroom next week.

But it may happen behind closed doors, with the news media and public barred — at least in part.

An attorney for lawyer Alan Dershowitz wrote a letter to the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Tuesday, asking whether the media should be excluded from the proceeding because his oral arguments on behalf of his client could contain sensitive information that has been under seal.

The appeals court had not responded to his concern as of Friday, but if the hearing is closed during his lawyer’s argument, it would represent the latest in a long history of successful efforts to keep details of Epstein’s sex crimes sealed.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article226922729.html#storylink=cpy

Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard, constitutional law expert and criminal defense attorney, represented Epstein, who in 2008 received what many consider an unusually light sentence for sexually abusing dozens of girls at his Palm Beach mansion. Two women — one of whom was underage — have said Epstein and his partner, British socialite and environmentalist Ghislaine Maxwell, directed them to have sex with Dershowitz, 80, and other wealthy, powerful men. Dershowitz and Maxwell have denied the claims.

Oral arguments are scheduled Wednesday to hear an appeal by the Miami Herald and other parties seeking to unseal a 2015 court case involving Epstein and Maxwell. The Herald, as part of an ongoing investigation into Epstein’s case, hopes to shed more light on the scope of Epstein’s crimes, who was involved and whether there was any undue influence that tainted the criminal justice process.

A legal brief supporting the Herald’s appeal was filed in December by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 32 other media companies, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Dow Jones, Fox News, Gannett, Politico, Reveal Center for Investigative Reporting and Tribune Publishing Co.

The case — which was settled in 2017 — involved Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who sued Maxwell in federal court in the Southern District of New York in 2015. Giuffre had asserted that Maxwell and Epstein trafficked her and other underage girls, often at sex parties that Epstein hosted at his homes in New York, New Mexico, Palm Beach and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Maxwell called her a liar. Giuffre sued for defamation.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article226922729.html#storylink=cpy

As the case was litigated, the judge allowed a vast trove of documents, including testimony by witnesses, to be sealed. Dershowitz, having been publicly implicated in Epstein’s crimes by Giuffre, tried unsuccessfully to get the judge to unseal a select number of documents that he says will exonerate him. Blogger Michael Cernovich also filed a motion to release a portion of the sealed documents.

The judge denied their motions in 2016, as the case was still ongoing, saying release of the documents could taint a potential jury pool.

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article226922729.html#storylink=cpy

 

[Dennis Olson]

Dup.