Jeffrey Epstein

[Ed Jewett]

Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free

Conchita Sarnoff Conchita Sarnoff � Wed Jul 21, 12:05 am ET


NEW YORK � Hedge fund mogul Jeffrey Epstein becomes a free man today, five years after he was first accused of sexually abusing underage girls. After months of reporting, The Daily Beast�s Conchita Sarnoff reveals exclusive details of the investigation and the legal wrangling that saved him from a long prison term. She reports:

� Palm Beach�s police chief objected to Epstein�s �special treatment� and gave The Daily Beast an exclusive look at his nine-hour deposition about the investigation.

� Earlier versions of the U.S attorney�s charges, including a sealed 53-page indictment, could have landed Epstein in prison for 20 years.

� Victims alleged that Epstein molested underage girls from South America, Europe, and the former Soviet republics, including three 12-year-old girls brought over from France as a birthday gift.

� The victims also alleged trips out of state and abroad on Epstein�s private jets, which would be evidence of sex trafficking�a much more serious federal crime than the state charges Epstein was convicted of.

� Epstein�s attorneys investigated members of the Palm Beach Police Department, while others ordered private investigators to follow and intimidate the victims� families; one even posed as a police officer.

� Then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told The Daily Beast that he �would have instructed the Justice Department to pursue justice without making a political mess.�
Film director Roman Polanski is not the only convicted pedophile to walk free this month and return to a life of privilege. On Wednesday, hedge fund manager [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]Jeffrey [COLOR=#366388 ! important]Epstein[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] completes his one-year house arrest in Palm Beach, which has been even less arduous than Polanski�s time at a Swiss ski chalet.
During Epstein�s term of �house arrest,� he made several trips each month to his New York home and his private Caribbean island. In the earlier stage of his sentence for soliciting prostitution with a minor�13 months in the Palm Beach Stockade�he was allowed out to his office each day. Meanwhile, Epstein has settled more than a dozen lawsuits brought by the underage girls who were recruited to perform �massages� at his [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]Palm [COLOR=#366388 ! important]Beach [/COLOR][COLOR=#366388 ! important]mansion[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]. Seven victims reached a last-minute deal last week, days before a scheduled trial; each received well over $1 million�an amount that will hardly dent Epstein�s $2 billion net worth.
With that, the known victims of Epstein�s sexual compulsion have been officially silenced, and the case against him is closed unless new ones come forward. According to banking sources, he has been moving assets out of the U.S. and may well follow Polanski into a luxurious exile.

Watch Jeffrey Epstein Storm Out of a Deposition When Asked About His Penis

But the question remains: Did Epstein�s wealth and social connections�former President Bill Clinton; Prince Andrew; former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers were just a few of the prominent passengers on his private jets�allow him to receive only a slap on the wrist for crimes that carry a mandatory 20-year sentence? Was he able, with his limitless assets and heavy-hitting lawyers�Alan Dershowitz, [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]Gerald [COLOR=#366388 ! important]Lefcourt[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR], Roy Black, Kenneth Starr, Guy Lewis, and Martin Weinberger among them�to escape equal justice?
Michael Reiter, the former Palm Beach police chief, certainly thinks so. He gave The Daily Beast exclusive access to the transcript of his nine-hour deposition for the victims� civil suits, in which he explained how the case against Epstein was minimized by the State Attorney�s Office, then bargained down by the U.S. Department of Justice, all in an atmosphere of hardball legal tactics and social pressures so intense that Reiter became estranged from several colleagues. At the time, Reiter, who retired in 2009 and now runs his own security firm, objected both to Epstein�s plea agreement and to the flexible terms of his incarceration in the county jail rather than state prison. Asked during the deposition whether he thought Epstein received special treatment, he answered �yes.�
In March 2005, Reiter�s department, acting on a complaint from the Florida parents of a 14-year-old girl, launched an investigation that would eventually uncover a pattern of predatory behavior stretching back years and spanning several continents, knowingly enabled by Epstein�s associates and employees. Two or three times a day, whenever Epstein was in Palm Beach, a teenage girl would be brought to the mansion on El Brillo Way. (�The younger the better,� he instructed Haley Robson, a local teenager who was paid to bring other girls to the house, and who declared, on a police tape, that she was �like a Heidi Fleiss,� the infamous California madam.) Advised that she would be giving a �massage,� the girl was then pressured to remove her clothes, submit to fondling and a large vibrator, and sometimes lured into more invasive sexual contact. Each girl was paid $200 or more, depending on how far things went, by house manager [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]Alfredo [COLOR=#366388 ! important]Rodriguez[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR], who was instructed always to have $2,000 cash on hand.
The Palm Beach Police Department identified 17 local girls who had contact with Epstein before the age of consent; the youngest was 14, and many were younger than 16. And that was just at one of Epstein�s many homes around the world�he also owns property in New York, Santa Fe, Paris, London, and the Caribbean. Subsequent investigation by the FBI, reaching as far back as 2001, indentified roughly 40 victims, not counting Nadia Marcinkova, whom Epstein referred to as his �Yugoslavian [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]sex [COLOR=#366388 ! important]slave[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]� because he had imported her from the Balkans at age 14. Now 24, Marcinkova became a member of the household and is alleged to have participated in the sexual contact with underage girls.
Epstein quickly got wind of the investigation, and progress on the case got messy very quickly. He hired a squad of lawyers and private investigators and dispatched influential friends to pressure the police into backing off. Instead, local detectives pressed on and brought the matter to the attention of the FBI. The detectives asked their federal colleagues whether the fact that some victims appeared to have traveled out of state on Epstein�s planes�plus the use of interstate phone service to arrange assignations�might be violations of the federal 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which carries a minimum sentence of 20 years. (Florida enacted the federal TVPA in 2002.)
So when State Attorney Barry Krischer, who also ran Florida�s Crimes Against Children Unit, proved reluctant to mount a vigorous prosecution of Epstein, saying the local victims were not credible witnesses, Chief Reiter wrote the attorney a letter complaining of the state�s �highly unusual� conduct and asking him to remove himself from the case. He did not, and the evidence his office presented to a state grand jury produced only a single count of soliciting prostitution. (Krischer has since retired and would not comment for this article.) The day after that indictment was returned, Reiter was relieved to have the FBI step in and take over the investigation.
The details that eventually emerged were often shocking and occasionally bizarre. For Epstein�s birthday one year, according to allegations in a civil suit, he was presented with three 12-year-old girls from France, who were molested then flown back to Europe the next day. These same civil complaints allege that young girls from South America, Europe, and the former Soviet republics, few of whom spoke English, were recruited for Esptein�s sexual pleasure. According to a former bookkeeper, a number of the girls worked for MC2, the modeling agency owned by Jean Luc Brunel, a longtime acquaintance and frequent guest of Epstein�s. Brunel received $1 million from the billionaire around the time he started the agency.
The non-prosecution agreement executed between Epstein and the Department of Justice states that Epstein and four members of his staff were investigated for �knowingly, in affecting interstate and foreign commerce, recruiting enticing and obtaining by any means a person, knowing that person has not yet obtained the age of 18 years and would be caused to engage in commercial sex act��that is, [COLOR=#366388 ! important][COLOR=#366388 ! important]child [COLOR=#366388 ! important]sex [/COLOR][COLOR=#366388 ! important]trafficking[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]. Yet the agreement allowed Epstein to plead guilty to only two lower-level state crimes, soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor child for prostitution.
Although the police investigation was officially closed, Chief Reiter tried to stay abreast of the federal case against Epstein. He was particularly concerned that Epstein be registered as a sex offender, which was part of the final deal, and that a fund be set up to compensate his victims�which was not, although Epstein agreed to bankroll their civil lawsuits. Attorney Dershowitz says Epstein�s agreement to pay attorney fees for the victims and agree to civil damage claims�without admitting guilt�amounted to �extortion under threat of criminal prosecution.�
But exactly which crimes did the Department of Justice threaten to prosecute? The Daily Beast has learned that there were several earlier versions of the U.S Attorney�s charges, including a 53-page indictment that, had he been convicted, could have landed Epstein in prison for 20 years. Brad Edwards, attorney for seven of the victims, confirms the existence of an earlier draft of the non-prosecution agreement, officially under seal, in which it appears that Epstein �committed, at some point, to a 10-year federal sentence.� But in the end Epstein�s legal team refused that deal and threatened to proceed to trial. And that�s where the question of whether the case was �winnable� before a jury again came into play, according to a source in the U.S Attorney�s Office, which shared the state attorney�s view that the prosecution was far from a slam dunk.
For one, it was clear from the start that Epstein would spare no legal expense and that his team of veteran lawyers, whose cases ranged from O.J. Simpson to the investigation of Clinton�s relationship with an intern, would play rough. When the Palm Beach police started to identify victims, according to Detective Joe Recarey�s report, Dershowitz began sending the detective Facebook and MySpace posts to demonstrate that some of these girls were no angels. Reiter�s deposition also states that he heard from local private investigators that Dershowitz had launched background checks on both the police chief and Det. Recarey. Dershowitz denies all of that. According to Reiter, both he and Recarey also became aware that they were under surveillance for several months, without knowing who ordered it. And the Florida victims began to complain that they and family members were being followed and intimidated by private investigators who were then linked to local attorneys in Epstein�s employ. In one reported instance, the private investigator claimed to be a police officer, and Reiter considered filing witness-tampering charges.
The credibility of the victims was also an issue; they had never complained of their treatment by Epstein until they were contacted by police, and they may have voluntarily returned to the Palm Beach mansion several times. Many of the girls came from disadvantaged backgrounds or broken homes, and they were susceptible to Epstein�s cash, intimidation, and charm. Those who were 16 when they went to El Brillo Way would have been in their 20s by the time they took the stand, and Epstein�s investigators had dredged up every instance of bad behavior in their pasts. According to an exchange in the Reiter deposition, a few of the victims had worked in West Palm Beach at massage parlors known as �jack shacks.� Each new compromising detail was immediately forwarded to the State Attorney�s Office, where staff met frequently with Epstein�s lawyers.
The Florida statutes are clear: Any person older than 24 who engages in sexual contact with someone under the age of 18 commits a felony of the second degree. The victim�s prior sexual conduct is not relevant; ignorance of her age is no defense. She needn�t resist physically to cast doubt on the issue of �consent.� For a child under 16, even lewd behavior short of touching is a felony of the second degree. But convincing a jury that a sexual encounter is a heinous crime is difficult if the victim can be made to appear willing and unharmed, not to mention vulgar and mercenary. It wasn�t hard to imagine some of the victims quickly being discredited in court by Epstein�s crack legal team, who repeatedly noted that the age of consent is lower in many other states.
But that doesn�t quite explain why the Department of Justice would forgo the child-trafficking charges, which pertain regardless of a girl�s attitude or character. Epstein�s final sentence is so out of line with the statutory guidelines for that crime that it appears the department may have been influenced by the existence of his many powerful friends and attorneys. A highly intelligent man who once taught math at the Dalton School in New York without a bachelor�s degree, Epstein has been a serious and respected player in the highest reaches of politics and philanthropy. He has made substantial contributions to political candidates, served on the Council on Foreign Relations, and donated $30 million to Harvard University.
Moreover, many of his high-powered acquaintances availed themselves of Epstein�s private jets, for which the pilot logs, obtained by discovery in the civil suits, sometimes showed that bold-face names were on the same flights as underage girls. A high-profile trial threatened to splash mud over all sorts of big players, just as both Gov. Richardson and Bill Clinton�s wife were running for president. Also, a hedge fund prosecution in which Epstein offered to give evidence was heating up. Alberto Gonzales, who was U.S. attorney general throughout most of the Epstein investigation and resigned just before the non-prosecution agreement was signed, told The Daily Beast that he �would have instructed the Justice Department to pursue justice without making a political mess.� But that may have been an impossible mandate, given the players involved.
Instead, said attorney Brad Edwards, �Epstein committed crimes that should have jailed him for most of his life�he was jailed for only a few months.� And this week he walks through his door a free man.
Conchita Sarnoff has developed multimedia communication programs for Fortune 500 companies and has produced three current events debate television programs, The Americas Forum, From Beirut to Kabul, and a segment for The Oppenheimer Report. She is a contributor to The Huffington Post and is writing a book about child trafficking in America.



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[Magda Hassan]

I wonder if he is eligible to go onto some sort of sex offender/pedophile register? And if he has been put on one.

[Jan Klimkowski]

I wonder if he is eligible to go onto some sort of sex offender/pedophile register? And if he has been put on one.

I wonder if he is eligible to go straight to Hell.

Yup. Thought so.

[Ed Jewett]

Well, he can at least afford to pay the ferryman.

[Ed Jewett]

Jeffrey Epstein Goes Free, Reunites With His 'Sex Slave'

Guess who's been released from prison? That would be Jeffrey Epstein, the secretive money manager who pleaded guilty in 2007 to soliciting underage teen girls for sex. Epstein has spent the last year or so in a Palm Beach prison, although he hasn't had to spend every minute of the day confined to a cell. As part of a work-release program, Epstein was allowed to leave his cell during the day and work from an "office" in West Palm Beach, work that reportedly involved helping the government build a case against the Bear Stearns hedge fund that imploded last year and cost Epstein the $67 million he'd invested in the fund. His cooperation helped shave six months off his sentence and early this morning Epstein skipped out of jail, using a side entrance to avoid the reporters that had gathered outside to greet him. But while his lawyer told a reporter that Epstein is thrilled that "this part of his life is over," and he's "ready to move on to other things," it doesn't look like he's totally put his past behind him.
Page2Live's Jose Lambiet reports this morning that jail records indicate that Epstein was visited on more than 70 occasions by Nadia Marcinkova, a woman who was at the center of Epstein's prostitution case in 2007. Marcinkova, who has described herself as a real estate broker in the past, served as Epstein's "assistant," helped wrangle underage girls for the billionaire, and even took part in the sex play herself, according to testimony given the Palm Beach police. And she may have also been a victim herself, since Epstein reportedly bragged to friends and associates that he'd "purchased her from her family in Yugoslavia" and "brought her into the United States to be his Yugoslavian sex slave."
Marcinkova wasn't the only person connected to Epstein's prostitution case to visit him behind bars. Sarah Kellen, who also allegedly helped procure girls for the money manager, stopped by on a few occasions. As did a handful of shady characters, including one Igor Zinoviev, "a Russian extreme fighter," and Jean-Luc Brunel, who co-owns a modeling agency in Miami and has been accused of abusing underage models in the past, according to Lambiet.
This morning, Epstein's lawyer said his client was experiencing "relief and excitement" now that he's a free man. We'll assume that even more "relief and excitement" will be experienced when he finally gets to reunite with Marcinkova in the privacy of his bedroom.
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[David Guyatt]

I think this, yet again, proves the truly - yet hidden - controlling influence of the paedophile "power" mafia, which have a very powerful and influential international membership which often is protected by the security services because they are so high profile.

This vile protection utterly undermines, imo, the police and judicial system of the western world.

[Peter Lemkin]

I think this, yet again, proves the truly - yet hidden - controlling influence of the paedophile "power" mafia, which have a very powerful and influential international membership which often is protected by the security services because they are so high profile.

This vile protection utterly undermines, imo, the police and judicial system of the western world.

Agree. I'd like to point out the Mae Brussell was the first [I know] to really research this and make a point of it...and it was [coincidently?!] her last research and the point at which she died and the house across the street from hers [from which she was monitored] burned to the ground the day she died].......I've also noticed a very high [over the national average] % of pedophiles in intelligence, positions of great financial power, and upper echelons of the military and certain powerful religious organizations.....go figure...:bandit:

This guy truly had a 'Get Out Of Jail Free' card. They didn't call the game Monopoly for nothing....

[Ed Jewett]

and who would want to undermine the law/judicial system of the Western world? Would it be the same people who stack the Commissions and turn down the computer security systems just before the cyber-attack?

[David Guyatt]

I don't think it is undermined on purpose Ed.

Those plentiful paedo's in positions of power are protected by Plod for political (control) reasons. (Ain't alliteration a grand thing...)

And since they know they are protected they are completely impervious to public opinion, social scruples, morals and the law.

They are the forever touching untouchables.

Also bear in mind that readers and members here and in other similar forums are a tiny majority - whereas the unwashed and ignorant greater majority remain oblivious of what really goes on remains behind the scenes. In the UK alone, no end of organized and connected paedo's network activity has been covered up and whitewashed over.

[Ed Jewett]

Jeffrey Epstein: Billionaire Pedophile Kept Secret Journal Which Listed Under-Aged Victims, Celebrity Guests He Entertained'

March 6th, 2011

Context: isgp.eu Mirror: https://wikispooks.com/ISGP/index.html

Update: FBI to Reopen Case
It was a honeypot.

Via: Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-quiz.html

The FBI is to reopen its investigation into disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein following Mail on Sunday revelations about his sexual exploitation of teenage girls and his links with high-profile individuals, including Prince Andrew.

The Bureau wants to interview Esptein's former personal masseuse', Virginia Roberts, after she revealed last week that she was recruited as Epstein's sex slave when she was just 15.

Last night, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, Virginia confirmed she will fully co-operate with the new investigation, which could have serious implications for Epstein and embarrass Prince Andrew, who she met on three occasions.

I will talk to the FBI,' Virginia said.I am anxious. I am still frightened of him because he has so much power. I had to put this behind me.

But in the end this is not for me. It's because I'm afraid there are a lot of girls still doing what I did for him, eight years after I left. I want to be the one who breaks the chain.'

The news comes as the Government appeared to withdraw support for the Prince's role as a trade envoy, with Business Secretary Vince Cable refusing to say whether he should stay in the post.

A source close to the inquiry said the FBI decided to reopen the case because of Virginia's revelations to The Mail on Sunday last week.

…

The new FBI investigation will undoubtedly be of grave concern to Prince Andrew, who was forced to accept that his continued friendship with the financier, a convicted child sex offender, was unwise.

On Friday, he severed all ties with Epstein although the new investigation could reveal further damaging details of their association.

Virginia's account of her meetings with the Prince was published under the restrictions of British libel laws, notoriously the most draconian in the Western world. There will be no such restraint on her testimony to FBI investigators.
It is highly likely that detectives will also wish to question the Prince as part of their investigation. If subpoenaed he may be forced to plead diplomatic immunity based on his role as business envoy for UK Trade and Investment. Last week David Cameron faced calls from the floor of the Commons to remove the Prince from his post.

If Andrew refuses to co-operate with US authorities he would, in all likelihood, be banned from entering the States, which would seriously affect his ability to fulfil his role as a trade envoy.

…

It is believed the new investigation will centre on Epstein's procuring of young girls and paying them to provide sexual favours for his business associates at his homes in New York, Florida, the US Virgin Islands and New Mexico.

Epstein's palatial houses were secretly covered by a network of hidden video cameras, raising concerns that compromising footage exists of a number of rich and powerful individuals useful to Epstein's work as a money manager.

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It is an astonishing roll call of names which shines a fascinating light into the world of Jeffrey Epstein and the powerful network he established both here and in America.

The financier's little black book' of contacts encompasses every conceivable sphere of influence, from politics and showbusiness to business and royalty. It lists numbers for former presidents, government Ministers, state senators, rock stars, actors and members of the British aristocracy.

End Update

Via: Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...ctims.html

The Duke of York's billionaire paedophile friend kept a secret journal, described as "The Holy Grail" by lawyers, which listed his alleged under-aged victims and the celebrity guests he entertained at his Florida mansion.

Jeffrey Epstein used the "black book" to log contact details of the girls that gave massages to him and his friends and those of his powerful and famous associates, such as Bill Clinton and Donald Trump.

A servant at the £4 million manor in Palm Beach, where Prince Andrew enjoyed daily massages during several stays, stole the journal and initially kept it secret from investigators. He is now in prison after attempting to sell it for $50,000 (£31,000).

Epstein, 58, was accused of sex offences by more than 20 under-aged girls. They alleged that after being recruited as masseuses by aides including Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late tycoon Robert, they were seriously assaulted and then paid hundreds of dollars.

The billionaire financier, who attended The Queen's birthday party in 2000, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2008, having secured a plea bargain that prevented full criminal trials. He later settled more than a dozen multi-million dollar civil lawsuits from his alleged victims out of court.

The previously undisclosed journal, however, "detailed the full scope and the extent of Epstein's involvement with underage girls", according to lawyers for several alleged victims.

It contained the names of girls that Epstein allegedly abused in "Michigan, California, West Palm Beach, New York, New Mexico, and Paris", according to court papers.

It also listed extensive contact details for Epstein's house guests, who had "no connection whatsoever" with alleged offences, including Mr Clinton, the former US President, and Mr Trump, the famous businessman.

It could not be confirmed last night whether the book contained contact details for the Duke. One lawyer for Epstein's alleged victims said: "I would bet he is, because he is that good a friend".

There is no suggestion that the Duke did anything wrong. However he has this week faced a string of questions about his judgment due to his association with a convicted child sex offender.

Epstein kept 21 different phone numbers for Mr Clinton, including some for his assistant and also "Clinton's personal numbers", the court papers state.

Alfredo Rodriguez, a servant who "saw numerous underage girls coming into Epstein's mansion for purported massages'," took the journal and did not mention it to investigators.

"Because of the importance of the information in the journal to the civil cases, Mr Rodriguez called it The Holy Grail'," the court documents state.

He attempted to sell the book to lawyers for $50,000 (£31,000) in August 2009 by which time Epstein had already been sentenced and released from jail.
The lawyers contacted the FBI, who sent an undercover agent to buy the book from Rodriguez. He was then arrested and charged with obstruction of justice.
Rodriguez, who said in sworn testimony that he was terrified of Miss Maxwell, also said he took the book as an "insurance policy" to prevent Epstein making him "disappear".

He was sentenced to 18 months in prison the same punishment Epstein received for his sex offences in June last year. His wife, Patricia Dunn, told The Daily Telegraph that he was "sorry" for his error.

Dave Lee Brannon, an Assistant Public Defender who represented Rodriguez, said: "If this book had been produced when requested, Mr Epstein's sentence may have been significantly different."

Details of the journal emerged in a lawsuit brought in Florida by Epstein against Brad Edwards, a lawyer representing several alleged victims.

Epstein alleges Edwards was linked to a "Ponzi scheme" run by a colleague, which lured investors by falsely claiming Epstein had agreed to settle sex-offence lawsuits for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Edwards rejects the allegation, which has already been dismissed by the Florida Bar.

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