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Powerful men are scared about what Ghislaine Maxwell will say
By Maureen Callahan July 2, 2020 | 3:44pm | Updated
Jeffrey Epstein’s victims have another shot at justice. Here’s hoping they get it.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged child sex trafficker and abuser in league with Epstein, was finally arrested Thursday morning.
Her guilt, in the court of public opinion, isn’t in question.
The only question is: Will the federal government keep Maxwell alive to stand trial?
There’s good reason conspiracy theories still swirl around Epstein’s suicide, nearly one year ago, in a downtown federal prison — a prison, by the way, that safely housed Bernie Madoff, the 1993 World Trade Center bomber, El Chapo and a terrorist who told the New York Times it was tougher than Guantanamo Bay — and he would know, because he’d been held in both.
It stands to reason that the federal government should be able to contain a socialite.
At the time of his death, Epstein was likely the most high-value prisoner in federal custody. He had ties to incredibly powerful men who had everything to lose if they were exposed. He was that most vile of criminals, a pedophile, a child molester, a rapist and a sex trafficker.
Maxwell is the last chance these victims have at justice. Epstein’s suicide was yet another brutal victimization. The federal government — if only out of its own self-interest — cannot let a prison suicide (or “suicide,” depending on what you believe) happen again.
Maxwell must be treated as she is: as high-value as Epstein, as dangerous and sneaky, kept under the strictest 24/7 suicide watch.
Here’s a detail that should make prosecutors and prison guards nervous: In the recent Netflix documentary “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” a survivor stands outside Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse and points to pockmarks in the edifice.
Such pockmarks, she says, were all over the interior. The entire house — every room, every bed, every bathroom, shower and toilet — was rigged with cameras and audio. Epstein kept a secret room full of monitors and watched his guests in real time. He blackmailed the powerful men who would visit and use his girls.
If Maxwell dies in custody, the federal government will take a hit from which it may never recover.
Consider the testimony of survivors in the same documentary.
“Tears of joy were streaming down my face,” Virginia Roberts Giuffre said upon hearing of Epstein’s arrest.
“Oh my God,” said Michelle Licata. “Finally. He is going to pay for everything he has done.”
One survivor warned the feds that Epstein had a way of evading justice. “I told them that they needed to look out for their victims,” she said. “I told them that if they were going to do this thing, they needed to really do it.”
His death hit these survivors that much harder because they had been given hope. They had been heard, seen, and believed. They were told they would have their day in court.
Those other powerful men with ties to Epstein, Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton among them, would not impede a federal trial — and in fact, Epstein’s trial would mean more conspirators and participants would fall.
“They’re going to start digging into his life,” said Licata, “and start pulling out this spider web of people that were related to it.”
No question Ghislaine Maxwell is Person of Interest Number One.
Maxwell’s favorite game, Giuffre said, was to place a young girl in front of a powerful older man and say: “How old do you think she is?”
From now on, every time we see her image, please let it be her mug shot — not that disgusting photo of Maxwell, beaming alongside Epstein, his arm oh-so-casually slung around her, his face smugly tilted upward, as if to indicate their complicity, amorality, self-regard and immunity from justice.
We’ve seen the fall of Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, men who thought they were too powerful to ever see the inside of a prison cell.
Epstein took the coward’s way out.
Let’s make sure Maxwell — who knew that these young girls would trust her, an older, sophisticated woman, to keep them safe, even as she lured them to unimaginable horrors — never feels safe again.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/02/powerful-men-are-scared-about-what-ghislaine-maxwell-will-say/
Nothing would surprise me with this sick person, Giovanni.
Auto asphyxiation?
He needed a good orgasm before he came and went.
Epstein Had Burst Capillaries In Eyeballs, Indicating He Was Strangled, Forensic Pathologist Says
by Eric A. Blair January 16, 2020
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/epstein-had-burst-capillaries-in-eyeballs-indicating-he-was-strangled-forensic-pathologist-says/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=daily
Unbelievable! I don't understand why Barr is buying all this. Are the stakes too high?
Prosecutors Confirm Cover-Up Of Epstein’s Death Was In The Works From The Beginning!
January 10, 2020
When you look at the situation involving Jeffrey Epstein, you can almost see from the start that the fix was in on covering up what really happened.
It’s what happens so many times with people that have dirt on the Clintons for example. Whenever someone is in a position where they might be compelled to come forward, they have a sudden accident or meet an untimely end.
Now, Epstein definitely should have paid for his crimes, but we should have gotten the truth out of him when it comes to all of the high-level people that he was associated with.
The first rule of the Deep State playbook, destroy all of the evidence…
Prosecutors in the case of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein have confirmed that the correctional facility housing Epstein destroyed the surveillance footage of his cell while he allegedly attempted suicide days before he was found dead.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Maurene Comey and Jason Swergold filed the letter in Manhattan Federal Court confirming that footage from the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) on July 22 and 23 was mysteriously destroyed, in the latest revelation that casts doubt on the official story.
“As set forth in greater detail, the Government has learned that the MCC inadvertently preserved video from the wrong tier within the MCC, and, as a result, video from outside the defendant’s cell on July 22 – 23, 2019 (i.e. the requested video) no longer exists,” the letter explains.
Swergold had previously made the same claim that the footage was destroyed in White Plains Federal Court last month, but recanted just 24 hours later. Now, it is has been revealed that he was initially telling the truth. The key footage has been destroyed, as the Epstein case unravels to reveal a cover-up of historic proportions.
http://theinformedamerican.net/prosecutors-confirm-cover-up-of-epsteins-death-was-in-the-works-from-the-beginning/?utm_source=Mailer-FAB&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:250547&utm_campaign=1-10%20TIA%20%231
60 Minutes investigates the death of Jeffrey Epstein
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/60-minutes-investigates-the-death-of-jeffrey-epstein/ar-BBYDD4c?ocid=spartanntp
Famed Doctor Says Epstein Murder ‘More’ Likely After Graphic Photos Emerge
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/famed-doctor-says-epstein-murder-more-likely-after-graphic-photos-emerge/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=daily
The FBI is investigating whether a "criminal enterprise" played a role in the controversial jailhouse death of well-connected sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. Sawyer's testimony came on the same day that two guards from a Manhattan jail were criminally charged with falsifying official records. (CNBC)
Ya, that's very interesting, as to what is going on that they would spurn a plea deal.
Are they being handsomely paid to keep quiet. Do they fear for their life if they talk.
Inquiring minds would love to know the true dynamics at play.
Two jail guards charged in connection to Jeffrey Epstein's death, sources say
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/two-jail-guards-charged-in-connection-to-jeffrey-epstein-s-death-sources-say/ar-BBWXpHm
LOL, LOL, LOL
I never trusted what the MSM was telling us. Too much going on we'll probably never find out.
.........al
Nice add, al. I knew from the beginning this story was loaded with intrigue
"Jeffrey Epstein Was Strangulated", Famous Forensic Expert Says
by Tyler Durden
Wed, 10/30/2019 - 09:35
This morning on Fox and Friends, Dr. Michael Baden, a famous forensic expert and former New York City medical examiner said that at the end of the investigation he did on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, its findings are more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicidal hanging.
Dr. Michael Baden, who was hired by Epstein’s brother and observed the autopsy, told Fox News that the 66-year-old Epstein had two fractures on the left and right sides of his larynx, specifically the thyroid cartilage or Adam’s apple, as well as one fracture on the left hyoid bone above the Adam’s apple, Baden told Fox News.
“Those three fractures are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation,” said Baden.
“The prominent hemorrhage in the soft tissues of the neck next to the fractures is evidence of a fresh neck compression that could have caused the death."
“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” the 85-year-old medical legend told Fox News.
This disagrees with New York City Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson's rulling that Epstein’s cause of death was suicide by hanging.
“It appears that this could have been a mistake,” Baden said.
“There’s evidence here of homicide that should be investigated, to see if it is or isn’t homicide.”
Just another "mistake."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/jeffrey-epstein-was-strangulated-famous-forensic-expert-says
Top MIT officials knew of Epstein’s ties to Media Lab, e-mails show
By Deirdre Fernandes Globe Staff, September 9, 2019, 9:21 p.m.
Top level MIT fund-raising and finance officials were aware of Jeffrey Epstein’s extensive ties to the university’s Media Lab and agreed to keep them hidden, e-mails from a whistle-blower obtained by the Globe reveal.
The e-mails suggest that, far from acting alone, Media Lab employees and the research facility’s former director, Joi Ito, had a tacit understanding with some central university administrators to keep quiet Epstein’s financial contributions and his role in helping recruit other high-level donors.
Ito resigned on Saturday after an explosive report in The New Yorker alleged that he and other Media Lab employees deliberately masked the full extent of the center’s ties to Epstein and worked with the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender despite the university listing him as a “disqualified” donor.
But according to e-mails that circulated in 2014 and 2015 among university officials, at least two top MIT fund-raisers, along with a finance department administrator, were aware of Epstein’s involvement in the Media Lab and knew that his donations were to be treated as anonymous in the university’s donor tracking system.
The e-mails were provided by Whistleblower Aid, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit representing Signe Swenson, a former alumni coordinator and development associate at the media lab
Swenson told The New Yorker that she resigned in 2016 in part because she felt uncomfortable with the Media Lab’s associations with Epstein. In a statement on Monday, she said she came forward with the documents because she was concerned that Ito and MIT were offering only a partial explanation of the university’s ties with Epstein.
“When I heard the statements coming from Ito and MIT, I could tell they didn’t capture the whole story and were so carefully crafted not to deny what I knew to be true either,” Swenson said. “I saw MIT was closing ranks. I couldn’t accept that.”
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/09/09/top-mit-officials-knew-epstein-ties-media-lab-mails-show/OFEzFtD0mgic2zzXOSPe9J/story.html?et_rid=692192707&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
‘Hundreds’ of names hidden in still sealed Jeffrey Epstein-related documents
By Julie K. Brown
September 04, 2019
A tentative schedule has been set to roll out potentially thousands of pages of documents that could reveal more names of people allegedly involved in the late financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.
At a status conference in New York Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska set a timeline for review of more than 160 documents, which will be organized into categories and reviewed in the coming weeks.
The case involves a federal lawsuit brought in 2015 by one of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Robert Giuffre, now 35. Giuffre’s lawyer, Sigrid McCawley, along with the Miami Herald and others, is seeking to unseal documents in the file that could reveal more about the role of Epstein’s former partner, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, in helping him run his operation.
Maxwell’s lawyer, Jeffrey Pagliuca, said the court documents in the case involve “hundreds of pages of investigative reports that mention hundreds of people.” He argues that many of those identified in the documents should not be publicly named.
Ghislaine Maxwell is named in at least one of the three lawsuits filed Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.
Some of those named could be victims, others could be witnesses or people employed by Epstein who provided statements implicating themselves or others as part of the civil case, which was settled in 2017.
The initial judge in the civil case agreed to have nearly everything sealed, but an appeals court earlier this year ruled that the documents should be made public. At issue is how those documents will be released and when.
Preska, expressing frustration that the case is dragging on, set up a schedule for the parties to review the documents and then submit legal briefs. People who are named in the documents could be notified ahead of time and given an opportunity to object to their identities being released, said Christine Walz, the attorney representing the Miami Herald.
On Tuesday, a man identified only as John Doe wrote a letter to the court asking the judge not to reveal his name or the names of others because, he said, it would harm their reputations. It’s not clear whether those parties will be granted requests for redacting their names.
Epstein, 66, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell on Aug. 10, one day after nearly 2,000 documents in the Giuffre case were unsealed. Those documents, part of the case’s motion for summary judgment, listed the names of many powerful men Giuffre said she was trafficked to for sex by Epstein and Maxwell.
Among those named: famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who represented Epstein; Prince Andrew; former Maine Sen. George Mitchell; former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin; hotel magnate Tom Pritzker; and MIT scientist Marvin Minsky. All of the men have denied that they were involved with Giuffre, except for Minsky, who is dead.
Maxwell, 57, has denied any involvement in Epstein’s crimes, but she nevertheless is being eyed by federal prosecutors in New York as a potential co-conspirator of Epstein’s. She has never been charged.
Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide by the New York medical examiner. U.S. Attorney General William Barr ordered a Justice Department probe into how Epstein, who had been on suicide watch days before his death, could have hanged himself. The federal Bureau of Prisons, which operated the facility, has come under intense pressure for failing to adequately monitor Epstein, and the acting director in charge was reassigned.
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During a keynote address at the Steamboat Institute in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, criminal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz on August 23 denounced claims from Virginia Giuffre that he participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. By Steamboat Institute via Storyful
With Epstein’s death, federal investigators are now focusing on others who allegedly helped him. The self-proclaimed billionaire molested dozens and perhaps hundreds of underage girls and young women over two decades by employing recruiters and schedulers to lure mostly poor and sometimes homeless girls to give him massages in exchange for money. Those massages often turned into sexual assaults by Epstein. In Florida alone, nearly three dozen girls, mostly 13 to 16, were identified by the FBI as victims.
In November, the Miami Herald published an exposé on the case, Perversion of Justice, that detailed how state and federal authorities in Florida allowed Epstein to escape federal sex trafficking charges and, by letting him plead guilty to the lesser charge of prostitution, he was allowed to serve a short jail sentence. As a result of the series, federal prosecutors in New York have reopened the case and dozens more women have come forward to allege that Epstein, Maxwell and others sexually exploited and abused them all over the country.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article234695687.html#storylink=cpy
Government by Blackmail: Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s Mentor and the Dark Secrets of the Reagan Era
Appalling for both the villainous abuse of children itself and the chilling implications of government by blackmail, this tangled web of unsavory alliances casts a lurid light on the political history of the U.S. from the Prohibition Era right up through the Age of Trump.
by Whitney Webb
July 25th, 2019
By Whitney Webb Whitney Webb
Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire who now sits in jail on federal charges for the sex trafficking of minors, has continued to draw media scrutiny in the weeks after his arrest on July 6. Part of the reason for this continued media interest is related to Epstein’s alleged relationship to the intelligence services and new information about the true extent of the sexual blackmail operation Epstein is believed to have run for decades.
As MintPress reported last week, Epstein was able to run this sordid operation for so long precisely because his was only the latest incarnation of a much older, more extensive operation that began in the 1950s and perhaps even earlier.
Starting first with mob-linked liquor baron Lewis Rosenstiel and later with Roy Cohn, Rosenstiel’s protege and future mentor to Donald Trump, Epstein’s is just one of the many sexual blackmail operations involving children that are all tied to the same network, which includes elements of organized crime, powerful Washington politicians, lobbyists and “fixers,” and clear links to intelligence as well as the FBI.
This report, Part II of this series titled “The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big To Fail,” will delve into Cohn’s close ties to the Reagan administration, which was also closely tied to the same organized crime network led by the infamous mob figure Meyer Lansky, which was discussed in Part I. Of particular importance is the “Iran Contra” network, a group of Reagan officials and associates who played key roles in the Iran Contra scandal. Though it has remained relatively unknown for years, many key figures in that same network, and several fronts for the CIA that were involved in funneling money to the Central American Contra paramilitaries, were also trafficking minors for their sexual exploitation and use in sexual blackmail rings.
Several of these rings made headlines at one point or another over the years — from the “call boy ring” run by Washington lobbyist Craig Spence, to the Franklin child-sex and murder ring run by Republican operative Larry King, to the scandal that enveloped the Catholic charity Covenant House in the late 1980s.
Yet, as this report will show, all of these rings — and more — were connected to the same network that involved key figures linked to the Reagan White House and linked to Roy Cohn — revealing the true scope of the sordid sexual blackmail operations and sex rings that involved the trafficking of children within the U.S. and even in Central America for their exploitation by dangerous and powerful pedophiles in the United States.
Appalling for both the villainous abuse of children itself and the chilling implications of government by blackmail, this tangled web of unsavory alliances casts a lurid light on the political history of the United States from the Prohibition Era right up to the present day and the Age of Trump, a fact made increasingly clear as more and more information comes to light in relation to the Jeffrey Epstein case.
“Roy could fix anyone in the city”
Since Donald Trump burst onto the political scene in 2015, the legacy of his mentor, Roy Cohn – as well as Cohn’s influence on his most famous protege — have begun to garner renewed media attention. Many of the profiles on Cohn following Trump’s rise have focused solely on certain shadowy aspects of Cohn’s history, particularly his association with major figures in New York organized crime, his corrupt dealings, and his eventual disbarment. Some of these portrayals even went so far as to label Cohn as politically impotent. While Cohn was known to deal with a sizable amount of sleaze in his career, such depictions of the man fail to note that he had created an influence machine of unrivaled power that included some of the most prominent people in media and politics as well as a cadre of celebrities.
Cohn was closely associated with numerous celebrities, famous politicians and political operatives. Many of his birthday parties over the years attracted such famous figures such as artist Andy Warhol, fashion designer Calvin Klein, and comedian Joey Adams, as well as notable political figures including former Mayor of New York Abraham Beame and then-Assemblyman from Brooklyn and future Senator Chuck Schumer, among others. In 1979 Margaret Trudeau, mother of current Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau, attended Cohn’s birthday party, where she famously toppled his custom birthday cake; and of course Donald Trump, who became Cohn’s protege in the mid-1970s, was a frequent fixture at social events held in Cohn’s honor.
The politicians, journalists and celebrities invited to Cohn’s exclusive parties were said to be those who “had open accounts in Cohn’s ‘favor bank,’” his nickname for his unofficial balance sheet of political favors and debts that was surely informed and influenced by his extensive involvement in sexual blackmail operations from the 1950s well into the 1980s.
Many of Cohn’s celebrity friendships were cultivated through his relationship with and frequent appearances at the famous and famously debaucherous New York nightclub Studio 54, which was described by Vanity Fair as “the giddy epicenter of 70s hedonism, a disco hothouse of beautiful people, endless cocaine, and every kind of sex.” Cohn was the long-time lawyer of the club’s owners, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager.
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Studio 54 co-owner Steve Rubell and Roy Cohn, left, talk to reporters outside U.S. District Court in Manhattan on, Nov. 2, 1979. Photo | AP
Among Cohn’s closest friends were Barbara Walters, to whom Cohn often referred as his “fiancee” in public, and whom he later introduced to the head of the U.S. Information Agency, Chad Wick, and other high rollers in the Reagan White House. Yet, Walters was just one of Cohn’s powerful friends in the media, a group that also included Abe Rosenthal, executive editor of the New York Times; William Safire, long-time New York Times columnist and New York Magazine contributor; and George Sokolsky of The New York Herald Tribune, NBC and ABC. Sokolsky was a particularly close friend of both Cohn and former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, whose involvement in Cohn’s sexual blackmail operation is described in Part I of this investigative series. Sokolsky ran the American Jewish League Against Communism with Cohn for several years and the organization later named its Medal of Honor after Sokolsky.
Cohn was also the attorney and friend of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and, according to New York Magazine, “Whenever Roy wanted a story stopped, item put in, or story exploited, Roy called Murdoch;” and, after Murdoch bought the New York Post, Cohn “wielded the paper as his personal shiv.” According to the late journalist Robert Parry, the friendship between Murdoch and Cohn first began thanks to their mutual support for Israel.
Cohn also leaned on his life-long friend since high school, Si Newhouse Jr., to exert media influence. Newhouse oversaw the media empire that now includes Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, and numerous local newspapers throughout the United States, as well as major interests in cable television. New York Magazine also noted that “Cohn used his influence in the early ’80s to secure favors for himself and his Mob clients in Newhouse publications.” In addition to Newhouse, Cohn’s other high school pals, Generoso Pope Jr. and Richard Berlin, later became the owners of the National Enquirer and the Hearst Corporation, respectively. Cohn was also a close friend of another media mogul, Mort Zuckerman, who – along with Rupert Murdoch – would go on to befriend Jeffrey Epstein.
Cohn’s media confidants, like journalist William Buckley of The National Review and Firing Line, often attacked Cohn’s political enemies – particularly long-time Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau — in their columns, using Cohn as an anonymous source. Buckley, whom historian George Nash once called “the preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure,” received the George Sokolsky medal alongside Cohn’s mob-linked client and “Supreme Commander” Lewis Rosenstiel from the Cohn-run American Jewish League Against Communism in 1966. Buckley later got a heavily discounted $65,000 loan to buy a luxury boat from a bank where Cohn held influence and whose president Cohn had hand picked, according to a 1969 article in LIFE magazine.
Buckley — along with Barbara Walters, Alan Dershowitz and Donald Trump — would later serve as character witnesses for Cohn during his 1986 disbarment hearings and all but Buckley would later draw controversy for their relationships with Jeffrey Epstein.
With connections like this, it’s no wonder that Stanley Friedman — a law partner of Cohn, who was later imprisoned over a kickback and bribery scandal while serving as New York’s deputy mayor — told journalist Marie Brenner in 1980 that “Roy could fix anyone in the city.”
Politically ubiquitous and polygamous
Roy Cohn’s “favor bank” and his unique position as a liaison between the criminal underworld, the rich and famous, and top media influencers made him a force to be reckoned with. Yet, it was his political connections to leadership figures in both the Republican and Democratic parties and his close relationship to long-time FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, among other figures, that made him and his dark secret “untouchable” for much of his life. Though most of his political influence was forged in the 1950s, Cohn became even more powerful with the rise of Ronald Reagan.
Even though he nominally maintained his affiliation with the Democratic Party throughout his life, Cohn was a well-known “fixer” for Republican candidates and this is clearly seen in his outsized roles during the 1976 and 1980 presidential campaigns of Ronald Reagan. It was during the latter that Cohn would meet another of his proteges, Roger Stone, whom he infamously instructed to leave a hefty bribe tucked in a suitcase at the doorstep of the Liberal Party’s headquarters during the 1980 campaign. During this campaign, Cohn would also meet Paul Manafort — an associate of Stone and later Trump’s 2016 campaign manager — and introduce both to Donald Trump.
Cohn’s law partner, Tom Bolan, was also an influential force in the Reagan campaign and later chaired Reagan’s transition team in 1980. Reagan then named Bolan, whom he considered a friend, a director of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the government’s development finance institution, and he was also the New York finance co-chairman in the Reagan campaign in both 1980 and 1984. Bolan was also close to others in Cohn’s circle, such as William F. Buckley Jr., Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch.
Furthermore, Bolan was instrumental in securing federal judgeships for several individuals who would later become influential, including future FBI Director Louis Freeh. Cohn was also able to get friends of clients appointed as federal judges, including Donald Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry. After Barry was appointed as a federal judge, Trump called Cohn to thank him for pulling strings on his sister’s behalf.
Though Cohn was not given a public position in the Reagan administration, he was not merely a “dirty trickster” who worked in the shadows during the Reagan campaigns. In fact, he worked closely with some of the more visible faces of the campaign, including the then-communications director for Reagan’s 1980 campaign and later CIA director, William Casey. According to Christine Seymour — Cohn’s long-time switchboard operator from the late 1960s up until his death in 1986, who listened in on his calls — Casey and Cohn were close friends and, during the 1980 campaign, Casey “called Roy almost daily.”
Seymour also noted that one of Cohn’s other most frequent phone pals and closest friends was Nancy Reagan and she was also one of his clients. Reagan, whose influence over her husband was well-known, was so close to Cohn that it was largely his death from AIDS that led her to “encourage her husband to seek more funding for AIDS research.”
Prior to Cohn’s death, Nancy and her husband Ronald secured his spot in an exclusive experimental AIDS treatment program, despite the Reagan administration’s well-documented “non-response” to the AIDS crisis of the era. Ronald Reagan was also a friend of Cohn’s and, according to late journalist Robert Parry, “lavished favors on Cohn, including invitations to White House events, personal thank-you notes and friendly birthday wishes” over the course of his presidency.
Given that Reagan heavily courted the evangelical right and promoted “family values” as president, the close ties between not only himself, but his inner circle, with Cohn may seem odd. However, Reagan, like Cohn, had deep ties to the same organized-crime factions that were among Cohn’s clients and affiliates of the same Mafia figures close to Cohn’s own mentor, Lewis Rosenstiel (see Part I).
Not unlike Cohn, Reagan’s own mentor, Lew Wasserman, had close ties to the mob. Wasserman, the long-time president of MCA and the well-known Hollywood mogul, is known for not only making Reagan’s film and television career, but also supporting his successful push to become president of the Screen Actors Guild, which later launched Reagan’s political career. In addition, MCA was a major financier of Reagan’s successful gubernatorial bid in 1966 and, not long after Reagan became president, his administration controversially shut down a massive Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into MCA’s ties to organized crime.
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Ronald Reagan, center, with A.C. Lyles and Lew Wasserman, right. Photo | A.C. Lyles
According to Shawn Swords, a documentary filmmaker who explored Reagan’s ties to MCA in Wages of Spin II: Bring Down That Wall:
Ronald Reagan was an opportunist. His whole career was guided by MCA — by Wasserman and [MCA founder] Jules Stein, who bragged that Reagan was malleable, that they could do what they wanted with him…That thing about Reagan being tough on [organized] crime — that’s a fallacy.”
Swords’ characterization of this relationship is supported by an unnamed Hollywood source cited in a declassified DOJ document, who called Reagan “a complete slave of MCA who would do their bidding on anything.”
What elements of organized crime were connected to Wasserman? As a young man, Lew Wasserman joined the Mayfield Road Gang, which was run by Moe Dalitz, a close friend of Meyer Lansky who, per the FBI, was a powerful figure in Lansky’s criminal enterprise, second only to Lansky himself among members of the Jewish mob.
Lew Wasserman would later marry Edith Beckerman, whose father was Dalitz’s lawyer. Wasserman’s closest friend and lawyer, Sidney Korshak, also had close ties to Dalitz and once partnered with Lansky in the Acapulco Towers Hotel. Notably, the magazine New West stated in 1976 that Korshak was the “logical successor to Meyer Lansky.” Korshak, as a lawyer, fit a niche similar to Roy Cohn and gained a reputation as the bridge between organized crime and respectable society.
In addition, the DOJ probe into MCA that the Reagan administration quashed was reportedly spurred after the Justice Department learned that an influential member of the Gambino crime family, Salvatore Pisello, was doing business with the massive entertainment company. At that time, the boss of the Gambino crime family, Paul Castellano, was a client of Roy Cohn.
Cohn, Murdoch and the Contras
Though Cohn’s influence in the Reagan administration and his friendship with the Reagan family and their inner circle has been acknowledged, less well-known is how Cohn aided the CIA’s covert propaganda efforts that were part of the larger scandal known as Iran-Contra.
Cohn, whose influence over the press has already been detailed, forged close ties with the director of the U.S. Information Agency, Chad Wick, even hosting a luncheon in Wick’s honor that was widely attended by influential figures in the conservative press, as well as senators and representatives. Soon after, then-CIA Director and Cohn friend William Casey was spearheading an extensive PR campaign aimed at shoring up public support for Reagan’s Latin American policies, including support of the Contra paramilitaries.
This domestic propaganda effort was technically illegal and required that the CIA outsource the job to the private sector to minimize the risk of fall-out. As Robert Parry reported in 2015, Wick took the lead in obtaining private funding for the effort and, just a few days after Wick promised to find private support, Cohn brought his close friend, the media mogul Rupert Murdoch, to the White House.
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Reagan meets with Rupert Murdoch, U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Wick, and Roy Cohn in the Oval Office in 1983. Photo | Reagan presidential library
Parry later noted that, after this meeting, “documents released during the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987 and later from the Reagan Library indicate that Murdoch was soon viewed as a source for the private funding” for the propaganda campaign.
After that initial meeting, Murdoch became the top media ally of this Casey-directed propaganda effort, and also became increasingly close to the Reagan White House. Murdoch, as a consequence, benefited greatly from Reagan’s policies and his friendship with the administration, which allowed Murdoch to increase his U.S. media holdings and to create the Fox Broadcasting Corporation in 1987.
“The man in the black tuxedo”
Roy Cohn was not the only one close to the Reagan administration who was simultaneously running sexual blackmail operations that abused and exploited children. In fact, there were several figures, all of whom shared direct connections to CIA Director William Casey and other close friends and confidants of Cohn.
One of these individuals was Robert Keith Gray, the former chairman and CEO of the powerful Washington-based public relations firm of Hill and Knowlton, which 60 Minutes once called “an unelected shadow government” due to its influence in the capitol. According to the Washington Post, Gray himself was “one of the most sought-after lobbyists in Washington” and a Post reporter once called him “a kind of legend in this town, …the man in the black tuxedo with snow-white hair and a smile like a diamond.”
Yet, Gray was much more than a powerful PR executive.
Gray, who had previously been a close adviser to both Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon, was a very successful Republican fundraiser who “collects money in six-figure globs,” according to a 1974 report in the Washingtonian. He first came into close contact with what would become Ronald Reagan’s inner circle during Reagan’s unsuccessful 1976 presidential campaign and later as deputy director of communications during Reagan’s campaign in 1980. The latter position would see him work directly under William Casey, who later became CIA director.
Gray would go on to co-chair Reagan’s Inauguration Committee and afterwards would return to the PR business, taking on several clients including Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and hedge fund manager Marc Rich. Both Khashoggi and Rich will be discussed more in detail in Part III of this report — particularly Rich, who was an asset of Israeli intelligence outfit Mossad, and whose later criminal pardon by Bill Clinton was largely orchestrated by members of the Mega Group like Michael Steinhardt and Israeli politicians like Ehud Barak.
The connection between Gray and Casey is particulary telling, as it was later revealed by former Nebraska state senator-turned-investigator John DeCamp that Gray was a specialist in homosexual blackmail operations for the CIA and was reported to have collaborated with Roy Cohn in those activities. Cohn and Gray were likely to have known each other well, as during Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign Casey — then Gray’s boss — was calling Roy Cohn “every day,” according to Cohn’s former switchboard operator Christine Seymour.
Gray was a known associate of CIA agent and Naval Intelligence officer Edwin Wilson, having served in the 1970s on the board of Consultants International, an organization that Wilson had founded and that the CIA used as a front company. Though Gray attempted to distance himself from Wilson after the latter was caught illegally selling weapons to Libya in 1983, a Navy review of Wilson’s intelligence career, unearthed by journalist Peter Maas, stated that Gray described Wilson as a man of “unqualified trust” and that Gray and Wilson had been in professional contact “two or three times a month” as early as 1963.
Though Wilson’s main specialty was front companies used to covertly ship and smuggle goods on behalf of U.S. intelligence, he also ran sexual blackmail operations for the CIA, particularly around the time of the Watergate scandal, according to his former partner and fellow agent at the CIA, Frank Terpil.
Terpil later told author and investigative journalist Jim Hougan:
Historically, one of Wilson’s Agency jobs was to subvert members of both houses [of Congress] by any means necessary…. Certain people could be easily coerced by living out their sexual fantasy in the flesh…. A remembrance of these occasions [was] permanently recorded via selected cameras…. The technicians in charge of filming … [were] TSD [Technical Services Division of the CIA]. The unwitting porno stars advanced in their political careers, some of [whom] may still be in office.”
According to Terpil, Wilson ran his operation out of the George Town Club, owned by lobbyist and Korean intelligence asset Tongsun Park. According to the Washington Post, Park set up the club on behalf of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency “as a primary means in an illegal effort to influence U.S. politicians and officials.” The president of the George Town Club at the time of Wilson’s alleged activities at the site was Robert Keith Gray.
DeCamp later reported that Wilson’s activities were a spin-off of the same sexual blackmail operation in which Cohn became involved during the McCarthy era with Lewis Rosenstiel and J. Edgar Hoover.
Father Ritter and his favored youths
The operation allegedly ran by Gray and Wilson was not the only sexual blackmail operation connected to Cohn’s network or to influential American politicians of the era. Another pedophile network that was connected to a close associate of former President George H.W. Bush in the early 1990s was run as an affiliate of the Catholic charity Covenant House, which was founded and run by Father Bruce Ritter.
In 1968, Ritter asked his superior — Cardinal Francis Spellman of the Archdiocese of New York — for permission to take homeless teenagers, boys and girls, into his home in Manhattan. As was noted in Part I of this series, Spellman was accused of pedophilia and ordained known pedophiles while serving as the highest-ranking Catholic priest in the United States. Spellman was also a close associate, client and friend of Roy Cohn, as well as of his law partner Tom Bolan, and Spellman was alleged to have been seen at least one of Cohn’s “blackmail parties.” In addition, Spellman’s nephew, Ned Spellman, worked for Roy Cohn, according to LIFE magazine.
Ritter, like Spellman and other priests who served under Spellman, was eventually accused of having sexual relationships with many of the underaged boys he had taken in, and of spending Covenant House funds on lavish gifts and payments to the vulnerable teenagers he exploited.
One of Ritter’s victims, Darryl Bassile, wrote an open letter to him a year after the priest’s preying on teenage boys was exposed by the press: “You were wrong for inflicting your desires on a 14-year-old .?.?. I know that someday you will stand before the one who judges all of us and at that time there will be no more denial, just the truth.”
Notably, when Ritter’s activities at Covenant House were exposed in 1989 by the New York Post, Charles M. Sennott, the Post reporter who wrote the story, would later state that “the secular powers more than the archdiocese or the Franciscans protected him [Ritter].” Sennott’s report was attacked viciously by columnists in other New York media outlets, powerful politicians including then-Governor of New York Mario Cuomo, as well as by Cardinal Spellman’s successor, Cardinal John O’Connor.
The likely reason these “secular powers” came to the aid of the embattled Ritter, who was never charged for having sexual relationships with minors and was merely forced to resign from his post, is that Covenant House and Ritter himself were deeply tied to Robert Macauley, Bush Sr.’s roommate at Yale and a long-time friend of the Bush family. Macauley was described by the New York Times as “instrumental” to Covenant House fundraising after he joined its board in 1985 and brought on several “other wealthy or well-connected people,” including former government officials and investment bankers.
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George and Barbara Bush meet residents at New York’s Convent House, June 22, 1989. Father Bruce Ritter is seated in the background. Rick Bowmen | AP
Macauley’s organization, the AmeriCares Foundation, which was later accused of funneling money to the Contras in Central America, was one of the main sources of funding of Covenant House. One of the members of AmeriCares advisory board was William E. Simon, former U.S. secretary of the treasury under the Nixon and Ford administrations, who also ran the Nicaraguan Freedom Fund, which sent aid to the Contras.
AmeriCares was also known to work directly with U.S. intelligence. As the Hartford Courant noted in 1991: “Knowledgeable former federal officials, many with backgrounds in intelligence work, help AmeriCares maneuver in delicate international political environments.”
Furthermore, Ritter was known to have visited Macauley’s Connecticut estate and served as Vice President of AmeriCares until he was forced to resign from Covenant House. Notably, George H.W. Bush’s brother, Prescott, was also on the AmeriCares advisory board. After George H.W. Bush died last year, AmeriCares stated that he had been “instrumental in founding the health-focused relief and development organization.”
Years before Ritter was outed as a pedophile who preyed on the disadvantaged and vulnerable teenagers who sought refuge at his charity, Covenant House was praised heavily by President Ronald Reagan, even earning a mention in his 1984 State of the Union address, which called Ritter one of the country’s “unsung heroes.” From 1985 to 1989, Covenant House’s operating budget grew from $27?million to $90 million and its board came to include powerful individuals including top executives at IBM, Chase Manhattan Bank and Bear Stearns.
It was during this time that Covenant House grew into an international organization, opening branches in several countries, including Canada, Mexico and elsewhere in Central America. Its first branch in Central America was opened in Guatemala and was headed by Roberto Alejos Arzu, a CIA asset whose plantation was used to train the troops used in the CIA’s failed “Bay of Pigs” invasion of Cuba. Alejos Arzu was also an associate of the former U.S.-backed dictator of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza, and a member of the Knights of Malta, a Catholic order to which former CIA Director William Casey and Roy Cohn’s law partner Tom Bolan also belonged. Alejos Arzu also worked for AmeriCares and was tied to several Central American paramilitary groups.
Intelligence community sources cited by DeCamp assert that the Alejos Arzu-led branch of Covenant House procured children for a pedophile ring based in the United States. Years later, Mi Casa, another U.S.-run charity in Guatemala that George H.W. Bush had personally toured with his wife Barbara in 1994, was accused of rampant pedophilia and child abuse.
The downfall of “Washington’s Jay Gatsby”
After having left his job as an ABC News correspondent in the 1980s, Craig Spence found success as a prominent conservative Washington lobbyist. Spence would soon find his fortunes shift dramatically when, in June 1989, it was revealed that he had been pimping out children to the power elite in the nation’s capital throughout the 1980s in apartments that were bugged with video and audio recording equipment. Much like Jeffrey Epstein, who ran a similar operation, Spence was often likened to Jay Gatsby, the mysterious, wealthy figure from the well-known Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby.
A 1982 New York Times article written about Spence said that his “personal phone book and party guest lists constitute a ‘Who’s Who’ in Congress, Government and journalism” and stated that Spence was “hired by his clients as much for whom he knows as what he knows.” Spence was also known to throw lavish parties, which the Times described as “glitter[ed] with notables, from ambassadors to television stars, from senators to senior State Department officials.” Roy Cohn, William Casey and Roy Cohn’s journalist friend William Safire were just some of the other attendees at Spence’s festivities.
“According to Mr. Spence,” the Times article continues, “Richard Nixon is a friend. So is [former Attorney General under Nixon] John Mitchell. [CBS journalist] Eric Sevareid is termed ‘an old, dear friend.’ Senator John Glenn is ‘a good friend’ and Peter Ustinov [British actor and journalist] is ‘an old, old friend.’” Notably, Ustinov wrote for The European newspaper soon after it was founded in 1990 by Robert Maxwell, the father of Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell and a known Mossad agent.
It was revealed just seven years after the Times’ published its doting profile of Spence that his “glittery parties for key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, media stars and top military officers” had been bugged in order “to compromise guests.” According to the explosive report published by the Washington Times, Spence was linked to a “homosexual prostuition ring” whose clients included “government officials, locally based U.S. military officers, businessmen, lawyers, bankers, congressional aides, media representatives and other professionals.” Spence also offered cocaine to his guests as another means of acquiring blackmail.
According to the report, Spence’s home “was bugged and had a secret two-way mirror, and … he attempted to ensnare visitors into compromising sexual encounters that he could then use as leverage.” One man who spoke to the Washington Times said that Spence sent a limousine to his home, which took him to a party where “several young men tried to become friendly with him.” According to DeCamp, Spence was known to offer young children for sex to attendees at his blackmail parties, along with illegal drugs like cocaine.
Several other sources, including a Reagan White House official and an Air Force sergeant who had attended Spence-hosted parties, confirmed that Spence’s house was filled with recording equipment, which he regularly used to spy on and record guests, and his house also included a two-way mirror that he used for eavesdropping.
The report also documented Spence’s connections to U.S. intelligence, particularly the CIA. According to the Washington Times report, Spence “often boasted that he was working for the CIA and on one occasion said he was going to disappear for awhile ‘because he had an important CIA assignment.’” He was also quite paranoid about his alleged work for the agency, as he expressed concern “that the CIA might ‘doublecross him’ and kill him instead and then make it look like a suicide.” Not long after the Washington Times report on his activities was published, Spence was found dead in the Boston Ritz Carlton and his death was quickly ruled a suicide.
The Washington Times report also offers a clue as to what Spence may have done for the CIA, as it cited sources that had claimed that Spence had spoken of smuggling cocaine into the U.S. from El Salvador, an operation that he claimed had involved U.S. military personnel. Given the timing of these comments from Spence, Spence’s powerful connections, and the CIA’s involvement in the exchange of cocaine for weapons in the Iran Contra scandal, his comments may have been much more than just boasts intended to impress his party guests.
One of the most critical parts of the scandal surrounding Spence, however, was the fact that he had been able to enter the White House late at night during the George H.W. Bush administration with young men whom the Washington Times described as “call boys.”
Spence later stated that his contacts within the White House, which allowed him and his “call boys” access, were “top level” officials and he specifically singled out George H.W. Bush’s then-National Security Advisor Donald Gregg. Gregg had worked at the CIA since 1951 before he resigned in 1982 to become National Security Advisor to Bush, who was then vice president. Prior to resigning from his post at the CIA, Gregg had worked directly under William Casey and, in the late 1970s, alongside a young William Barr in stonewalling the congressional Pike Committee and Church Committee, which investigated the CIA beginning in 1975. Among the things that they were tasked with investigating were the CIA’s “love traps,” or sexual blackmail operations used to lure foreign diplomats to bugged apartments, complete with recording equipment and two-way mirrors.
Barr would later become Bush’s Attorney General, rising to that post yet again under Trump. Furthermore, Barr’s father worked for the precursor to the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and recruited a young Jeffrey Epstein, then a high school drop-out, to teach at the elite Dalton School, from which Epstein was later fired. A year prior to hiring Epstein, Donald Barr published a science fiction fantasy novel about sex slavery. Notably, the same year Donald Barr hired Epstein, his son was working for the CIA. Bill Barr has refused calls to recuse himself from the Epstein case, even though he worked at the same law firm that has represented Epstein in the past.
Donald Gregg is also connected to Roy Cohn’s “influence machine” through his daughter’s marriage to Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative journalist William Buckley, close confidant and friend of both Roy Cohn and Cohn’s law partner Tom Bolan.
The Washington Times reports on Spence’s child sex ring also reveal his close ties to none other than the ubiquitous Roy Cohn. One of the Times’ sources for its first story on the scandal alleged that he had attended a birthday party for Roy Cohn that Spence had hosted at his home and that CIA Director William Casey was also in attendance. Spence was also said in the report to often brag about his social companions and regularly mentioned Cohn and claimed to have hosted Cohn at his house on occasions other than the aforementioned birthday party.
“Bodies by God”
The revelation of Craig Spence’s “call boy ring” soon led to the discovery of the infamous Franklin child sex abuse and ritual murder scandal. That sordid operation was run out of Omaha, Nebraska by Larry King, a prominent local Republican activist and lobbyist who ran the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union until it was shut down by federal authorities.
Buried in a May 1989 article in the Omaha World Herald’s probe into King’s Credit Union and sex ring, is a telling revelation: “In the 61/2 months since federal authorities closed Franklin, rumors have persisted that money from the credit union somehow found its way to the Nicaraguan contra rebels.”
The possibility that King’s fraudulent credit union was covertly funding the Contras was supported by subsequent reporting by the Houston Post’s Pete Brewton, who discovered that the CIA, in conjunction with organized crime, had secretly borrowed money from various savings and loans (S&L) institutions to fund covert operations. One of those S&Ls had Neil Bush, George H.W. Bush’s son, on its board and it had done business with King’s organization.
Another link between King and the Iran Contra team is the fact that King had co-founded and subsequently donated over $25,000 to an organization affiliated with the Reagan administration, Citizens for America, which sponsored speaking trips for Lt. Col. Oliver North and Contra leaders. The director of Citizens for America at the time was David Carmen, who simultaneously ran a public relations firm with the former head of covert operations at the Casey-led CIA, his father Gerald, who had also been appointed by Reagan to head the General Services Administration and to a subsequent ambassadorship.
One of the investigative journalists who researched the Craig Spence ring later told DeCamp that Spence’s ring was connected to King:
The way we discovered Larry King and his Nebraska-based call boy ring, was by looking through the credit card chits of Spence’s ring, where we found King’s name.”
It was later revealed that King and Spence were essentially business partners as their child trafficking rings were operated under a larger group that was nicknamed “Bodies by God.”
Exactly how many groups operated under this umbrella group, “Bodies by God,” is unknown. Yet, what is known is that the rings run by both King and Spence were connected to each other and both were also connected to prominent officials in the Reagan and subsequent George H.W. Bush administrations, including officials with ties to the CIA and Roy Cohn and his network.
Indeed Spence, just months before his alleged suicide in the Boston Ritz Carlton, had hinted to Washington Times reporters Michael Hedges and Jerry Seper, who had originally broken the story, that they had merely scratched the surface of something much darker:
All this stuff you’ve uncovered [involving call boys, bribery and the White House tours], to be honest with you, is insignificant compared to other things I’ve done. But I’m not going to tell you those things, and somehow the world will carry on.”
It is also worth noting the role of the FBI in all of this, particularly in the Franklin child sex abuse scandal. Indeed, Larry King’s child sex abuse ring was quickly and aggressively covered up by the FBI, which used a variety of under-handed tactics to bury the reality of King’s sordid operation. Here, it is important to recall the key role former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover played in similar sexual blackmail operations that abused children (See Part I) and the close relationship between Hoover, Roy Cohn and Lewis Rosenstiel, who later employed Hoover’s former right-hand man at the FBI, Louis Nichols.
Years later, documents released by the FBI would show that Epstein became an FBI informant in 2008, when Robert Mueller was the Bureau’s director, in exchange for immunity from then-pending federal charges, a deal that fell through with Epstein’s recent arrest on new federal charges. In addition, former FBI Director Louis Freeh would be hired by Alan Dershowitz, who is accused of raping girls at Epstein’s homes and was once a character witness for Roy Cohn, to intimidate Epstein’s victims. As previously mentioned, Freeh’s past appointment as a judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York was orchestrated by Cohn’s law partner Tom Bolan.
Thus, the FBI’s cover-up of the Franklin case is just one example of the Bureau’s long-standing practice of protecting these pedophile rings when they involve members of the American political elite and provide the Bureau with a steady supply of blackmail. It also makes it worth questioning the impartiality of one of the main prosecutors in the Jeffrey Epstein case, Maurene Comey, who is the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.
The rot at the top
While there were several sexual trafficking operations connected to both Roy Cohn and the halls of power under the Reagan administration, in a matter of months after Cohn’s death it appears that another individual became a central figure in the powerful network that Cohn had cultivated.
That individual, Jeffrey Epstein, would be recruited, after his firing from the Dalton School, by Alan “Ace” Greenberg, a close friend of Cohn, to work at Bear Stearns. After leaving Bear Stearns and working as an alleged financial “bounty hunter” for clients that are said to have included the Iran-Contra-linked arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, Epstein would come into contact with Leslie Wexner, a billionaire close to the Meyer Lansky-linked Bronfman family, who himself was tied to members of organized crime syndicates once represented by Cohn.
The same year that Wexner would begin his decades-long association with Epstein, another Cohn friend with ties to the Reagan White House and the Trump family, Ronald Lauder, would provide Epstein with an Austrian passport containing Epstein’s picture but a false name.
Lauder, Wexner and the Bronfmans are members of an elite organization known as the Mega Group, which also includes other Meyer Lansky-connected “philanthropists” like hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt. While Epstein shares considerable overlap with the network described in this report and Part I of this series, he is also deeply connected to the Mega Group as well as its associates, including Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, Robert Maxwell.
Part III of this series will focus on the Mega Group and its ties to the network that has been described in Parts I and II. In addition, the role of the state of Israel, the Mossad, and several global pro-Israel lobby organizations will also be discussed in relation to this network of sexual blackmail operations and Jeffrey Epstein.
It is here that the full breadth of the Epstein scandal comes into view. It is a criminal and unconscionable blackmail operation that has been run by influential figures, hidden in plain sight, for over half a century, exploiting and destroying the lives of untold numbers of children in the process. Over the years, it has grown many branches and spread well beyond the United States, as seen by the activity of Covenant House in Latin America and Epstein’s own international effort to recruit more girls to be abused and exploited.
All of this has taken place with the full knowledge and blessing of top figures in the world of “philanthropy” and in the U.S. government and intelligence communities, with great influence over several presidential administrations, particularly since the rise of Ronald Reagan and continuing through to Donald Trump.
Feature photo | Graphic by Claudio Cabrera
Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.
Screw the "royalties". Let them go to work like everyone else. Acting this way on the English's public money!
High time to drop this class system in England and elsewhere.
MG
Mystery over when Prince Andrew first met Jeffrey Epstein as flight logs detail close friendshipby Jerry Dunleavy
| September 03, 2019 11:48 AM
Prince Andrew has been distancing himself from longtime friend and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who hanged himself in a cell last month.
Queen Elizabeth II's second son, 59, who enjoys the title of Duke of York, has insisted he first met Epstein, who was 66, in 1999. But flight logs show that the prince's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, with whom he has remained close, and their two daughters were with Epstein in the Bahamas in April 1998.
Virginia Giuffre, who alleges Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell exploited her when she was underage, has accused the prince of forcing her to have sex with him when she was 17. “He knows exactly what he’s done,” Giuffre said last week from the steps of a Manhattan courthouse. “And I hope he comes clean about it.”
Days earlier, the prince had said he was “at a loss to be able to understand or explain” his dead friend’s “lifestyle.” The royal downplayed his closeness with Epstein, referring to their relationship as a “former association or friendship.” He claimed to be in the dark about any of Epstein’s alleged sex crimes involving underage girls, despite a friendship spanning well over a decade, repeated visits to and stays at Epstein’s various homes, and flights on Epstein’s planes.
The prince said he met Epstein in 1999 and claimed he saw Epstein infrequently, “probably no more than only once or twice a year.” It was, he added, "a mistake and an error” to visit him in 2010 after his sex conviction.
But the claims of short and infrequent visits are belied by Andrew’s lengthy stays at Epstein’s homes. Andrew spent multiple days on Epstein’s private island in February 1999, and in 2000, the two saw each other nearly a half a dozen times or more in the United Kingdom and the United States, with Andrew reportedly staying at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion multiple times, apparently followed by a New Year’s excursion to Thailand in early 2001.
While Andrew acknowledged he stayed in "a number" of Epstein's residences, he didn't mention he'd invited Epstein to royal residences such as Windsor Castle, Sandringham Estate, and Balmoral Castle.
Maxwell, 57, is said to have introduced Andrew and Epstein. The youngest daughter of British publisher and fraudster Robert Maxwell, she moved to New York after her father’s death in 1991 and became Epstein’s on-again off-again girlfriend and, eventually, his alleged right-hand woman in a scheme to exploit underage girls. She is alleged to have helped Epstein abuse Giuffre and numerous others over the years. As Epstein helped her move through the New York City social scene, she successfully insinuated herself with British royalty and brought Epstein along for the ride.
British newspapers reported in 2000 and 2001 that Maxwell and Andrew had become great friends and may have been romantically involved. The two met through Andrew’s ex-wife, whom flight logs show Epstein knew as early as 1998.
It's not clear if Andrew is under investigation or if Maxwell will be charged. Attorney General William Barr has said that the investigation into Epstein’s alleged international sex trafficking conspiracy will continue and that any co-conspirators “should not rest easy.”
Timeline
April 16, 1998: Epstein was listed as the only passenger on a flight from Palm Beach, Florida, to the Bahamas, where the logs say Epstein “met Princess Sarah Ferguson and kids on the ground.” Ferguson, a controversial figure in Britain who divorced Andrew in 1996 but remained his defender through the years, has two daughters with the prince. Years later, it was reported Ferguson visited Epstein’s island with her daughters at a yet-unknown date, but Epstein declined to have her visit a second time without the kids in tow. A British paper speculated in 2000 that two had business dealings together.
February 1999: Andrew flew with Epstein for the first known time just five weeks into 1999, when the royal, Epstein, Maxwell, Maxwell’s assistant Emmy Tayler, and French decorator Alberto Pinto flew from New Jersey to St. Thomas in the Caribbean, where Epstein owned a now-well-known island. They spent four days there and flew back to Palm Beach, where Epstein had an estate, on Feb. 12, 1999, along with Russian model Anna Malova, a woman named Clare Hazel, and financial executive Gwendolyn Beck, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2014 (receiving donations from Epstein) and was a one-time girlfriend of Sen. Bob Menendez.
Summer or fall 1999: Andrew reportedly welcomed Epstein and his entourage, including young women, to Balmoral Castle in Scotland as part of a U.K. trip by Epstein that included a stay at Maxwell’s London apartment.
February 2000: Epstein, Andrew, and Maxwell attended a tennis tournament at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump announced Andrew’s presence in the crowd, and Trump and then-girlfriend Melania Knauss were photographed with him. Epstein was photographed with Maxwell and Michael Bolton. This was reportedly followed by a trip to New York to attend a fashion show.
March 2000: Andrew and Maxwell reportedly attended a fundraising dinner for the London Symphony Orchestra in New York.
April 2000: Andrew and Maxwell were spotted holding hands together at Nello’s restaurant in Manhattan, and a staff member reportedly claimed the pair had been seen there together in 1999 also. Maxwell was also spotted dining at the restaurant with Bill Clinton in 2002.
May 2000: Andrew reportedly traveled to New York and then vacationed in Florida with Maxwell and Epstein. Flight logs show they hopped a ride on Epstein’s plane on May 12, 2000, flying from Teterboro, New Jersey, to Palm Beach, Florida, with a bodyguard, Epstein, Tayler, Pinto, an unknown woman named Alexia, and an unnamed male.
June 2000: Epstein and Maxwell were invited by Andrew to the Dance of the Decades celebration at Windsor Castle for the Queen's party celebrating four royal birthdays.
September 2000: Maxwell was photographed with Andrew at the wedding of Aurelia Cecil, Andrew’s ex-girlfriend, near Salisbury.
October 2000: Andrew attended Heidi Klum’s Halloween Party, with a “Hookers and Pimps” theme that year, with Maxwell in New York.
December 2000: Epstein and Maxwell were invited to a £20,000 weekend celebration at the royal Sandringham House that Andrew organized in honor of Maxwell’s 39th birthday. The event included pheasant shooting, and Andrew was photographed with Maxwell and Epstein.
January 2001: Andrew vacationed in Phuket, Thailand, for the start of the New Year, where he was photographed on a yacht with topless women. Epstein and Maxwell were reportedly with him for at least part of the vacation.
2006: Epstein was arrested and charged with sex crimes after a lengthy FBI investigation.
2007-2008: Alex Acosta, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, reached an agreement with Epstein’s attorneys where their client was allowed to plead guilty to state-level prostitution solicitation charges related to a 17-year-old girl. Epstein served just 13 months in Palm Beach County Jail — which included work release — and registered as a sex offender. The secret agreement was struck before investigators finished interviewing all the alleged victims, was made without informing some victims, and included protections for some of Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators.
December 2010: The friendship between Epstein and Andrew continued once Epstein finished his short jail stint. Footage recently surfaced of Andrew waving goodbye to a young woman leaving Epstein’s New York abode in late 2010. The two were pictured strolling through Central Park together around the same time, and Andrew is believed to have stayed with Epstein for numerous consecutive days.
March 2011: It was revealed in early 2011 that, at the request of Andrew, Epstein paid Ferguson's former personal assistant Johnny O'Sullivan £15,000 to help let Ferguson’s £5 million debt be restructured. Ferguson responded by saying she’d pay the money back and expressed her “regret that Jeffrey Epstein became involved in any way with me” and admitted “this was a gigantic error of judgment on my behalf.”
July 2011: Andrew stepped down after years as the U.K.’s special representative for trade after his continued friendship with Epstein was made public.
2015 lawsuit: Giuffre filed a defamation suit against Maxwell in 2015, saying was pressured into having sex with Andrew “three times, including one orgy” when she was underage in 2001. A photo shows Andrew with his arm wrapped around her waist in Maxwell’s London home when Giuffre was 17 years old. Maxwell is smiling in the background. Giuffre claims she also met Andrew in New York in March 2001 and in the U.S. Virgin Islands in April 2001. Epstein’s flight logs show Giuffre was there, and other reporting suggests Andrew was near those locations at the same time. Other women's allegations were included in the lawsuit too.
2015 denials: Buckingham Palace and Andrew called all these allegations “categorically untrue.”
July 2019: Epstein was arrested by authorities at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on his way home from Paris and, according to a 14-page federal indictment, he sexually exploited and abused “dozens of minor girls” at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations, between 2002 and 2005 and perhaps beyond. Epstein pleaded not guilty.
Aug. 9, 2019: Over 2,000 pages of court records connected to Giuffre’s lawsuit were unsealed and included allegations by Giuffre that Maxwell instructed her to have sex with Andrew.
Aug. 10, 2019: Epstein died in what the medical examiner ruled a suicide by hanging.
Buckingham Palace has since issued a series of denials, saying that “this relates to proceedings in the United States, to which The Duke of York is not a party” and that “any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.” When the 2010 video of Andrew with Epstein emerged, the palace said that “the Duke of York has been appalled by the recent reports of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes.”
Jeffrey Epstein’s New York Hunting Ground: Dance Studios
The financier recruited young dancers to give him erotic massages even after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
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Marlo Fisken was asked if she would become Jeffrey Epstein’s personal trainer.
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By Ali Watkins
Sept. 3, 2019
Updated 6:27 p.m. ET
Lisa was 17 when a fellow dancer approached her after a ballet class in 2002 and asked if she wanted to give private exercise classes to a wealthy man named Jeffrey Epstein.
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Epstein accuser says Prince Andrew should 'come clean'
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LONDON (AP) — An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein who claims she was also farmed out for sex with Britain's Prince Andrew has challenged the British royal to speak up, saying: "He knows exactly what he's done and I hope he comes clean about it."
The jet-setting middle son of Queen Elizabeth II was a years-long friend of the financier who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. But the prince strenuously denies any knowledge of criminal behavior by Epstein and has described himself as "appalled" by allegations from many women who accused Epstein of sexual abuse.
Among them is Virginia Roberts Giuffre. She has said she was a 15-year-old working at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club when she was recruited to perform sex acts on Epstein. Giuffre said in a sworn affidavit that she was flown on Epstein's private planes to his properties in New Mexico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Paris and New York, and said meetings were also arranged for sex in London and elsewhere with Prince Andrew.
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© Provided by The Associated Press Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a sexual assault victim, speak during a press conference outside a Manhattan court where sexual victims, on invitation of a judge, addressed a hearing after the accused Jeffrey Epstein killed himself before facing sex trafficking charges, Tuesday Aug. 27, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Without making specific new allegations against the British royal, Giuffre used a New York court appearance Tuesday to heap more attention on Andrew's links to Epstein.
"He knows what he's done and he can attest to that," Giuffre told reporters outside the courthouse after she and 15 other women testified about abuse they allege they suffered at Epstein's hands.
Pressed for additional comment, she added: "He knows exactly what he's done and I hope he comes clean about it. Thank you."
There was no mention of the prince during the court hearing itself. But Giuffre's comments outside were widely reported in the British media Wednesday, focusing further scrutiny on the 59-year-old prince whose 10-year marriage with Sarah Ferguson ended in divorce in 1996, three years before the prince says he first met Epstein.
In a statement last Saturday, the prince who served in the Royal Navy and worked in an ambassadorial role promoting Britain as an investment destination, said he saw Epstein "infrequently and probably no more than only once or twice a year. I have stayed in a number of his residences."
A photo in court records shows Andrew with his arm around Giuffre's waist.
Brad Edwards, a lawyer representing Epstein accusers, said Tuesday that he would welcome Andrew's help in trying to seek justice for the women.
"I personally extended that invitation to Prince Andrew multiple times. Anytime, we are ready and we have a lot of questions for him," he said. "We have specific pointed questions and if he really wants to help, then we want his help."
In his written statement, Andrew said: "At no stage during the limited time I spent with him did I see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction."
That referred to Epstein's 2008 conviction after pleading guilty to prostitution-related state charge. Epstein served 13 months behind bars.
In his statement, Andrew acknowledged that he also met Epstein after his release in 2010 but said it was a "mistake."
Epstein, 66, was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10, touching off outrage that such a high-profile prisoner could have gone unwatched at the Manhattan federal lockup. He was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges involving dozens of teenage girls.
You too, Gmen
Yep, It goes to the site but not the article. Sometime these things happen, not to worry! Have a good evening.
Ya, I got the same thing, the "Ooops" message
But at least it connects to the publication but not the article, at least for me it does
I'm sorry Gmen.
I'll do it again and test it opens before posting
They are kinda second rate sites
Gee .... Neither of the links supplied with your last two posts seem to work for me.
I get an opps. page not found, imagine that!
A psychiatrist who's worked with inmates where Jeffrey Epstein was held weighs in on his death
Lauren Frias Aug. 24, 2019, 9:22 AM BUSINESS INSIDER
The Justice Department confirmed in a letter to lawmakers Friday that a "doctoral-level psychologist" signed off on taking criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein off suicide watch.
Forensic psychiatrist Ziv Cohen, who has been evaluating inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center where Epstein was held, weighed in on the matter in an interview with Insider.
Cohen said he thinks that "at MCC, they're well aware that suicide is a serious problem, and they're well aware that this is something they are trying to address on a daily basis."
However, he also said that Epstein's case "seems to be a question of whether something went wrong in their ability to address the situation."
The Justice Department confirmed in a letter to lawmakers Friday that a "doctoral-level psychologist" signed off on taking criminal financier Jeffrey Epstein off suicide watch on July 29. A little under two weeks later, he was found dead in his cell on August 10.
According to the letter, the psychologist deemed constant observation as "no longer warranted" for Epstein, despite being on suicide watch less than a week before.
"The Department and the Bureau take seriously the responsibility to ensure the safety and security of all inmates in the custody of the Bureau," the letter stated.
Forensic psychiatrist Ziv Cohen has been evaluating inmates at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, the high-security prison where Epstein was held, for about ten years, he told Insider. Although the Justice Department affirmed that a "doctoral-level" psychologist cleared Epstein, a psychiatrist is needed to meet the regular standard of care in a prison.
"The psychiatric standard of care requires that a doctoral level clinician make the decision to remove an inmate from suicide watch. Ideally, this would be a psychiatrist," Cohen wrote in an email. "If a psychologist were to make the decision, it should be in consultation with a psychiatrist, given the serious consequences of this decision."
Cohen, who previously worked on a case involving suicide in prison, believes Epstein's estate has a case against MCC
In his time as a forensic psychiatrist, he served as an expert witness on a case related to the psychiatric standard of care in order to prevent suicide in prison. The plaintiff was a veteran who was imprisoned for driving while under the influence and later died by suicide on his second day of incarceration after a psychiatrist determined that he was not a danger to himself.
In the case, Cohen said that it was "almost certain" that the plaintiff would be in opioid withdrawal when he was assessed by the psychiatrist, putting him at "higher risk of committing suicide," thus not meeting the standard of care required for him.
The same idea could be echoed in Epstein's case, after the change in lifestyle for the disgraced financier could have been a trigger for suicide — going from his high-life as a multi-millionaire to an inmate in a federal prison, Cohen said.
Last week, Epstein's defense team blasted the "medieval conditions" of the federal prison and announced that they are launching their own investigation into their employer's death. However, it does pose a problem that Epstein's case may not appeal to the masses.
"Part of the problem for them, I think, is that Epstein doesn't cut a very sympathetic figure, and in the criminal justice system, that matters," Cohen said. "If the system plays itself out in front of people, whether they're jurors or judges, these are people."
However, the forensic psychiatrist added that, "if you look at it dispassionately, you do have to acknowledge that no one should die in jail."
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-death-poll-2019-8c
Only 33% of Americans believe that Jeffrey Epstein actually died by suicide
Ellen Cranley BUSINESS INSIDER
Only 33% of Americans agree with an autopsy report that says Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, according to a new poll.
The Emerson College poll also found that 34% of respondents said they believe he was murdered, falling in line with numerous conspiracy theories that have flourished since the disgraced financier's death.
Epstein was reported dead on August 10 in what was later concluded by the New York chief medical examiner to be a suicide.
Federal authorities have rejected the conspiracies as they continue investigations into the prison's conditions and the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death.
Only 33% of Americans believe Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide, indicating a widespread belief in the conspiracy theories that have emerged in the aftermath of the sex offender's death.
In a poll conducted by Emerson College, 1,458 registered voters responded that they were closely split among three possible explanations for Epstein's death: 34% said they believe he was murdered, 33% said they believe he committed suicide, and 32% said they are unsure.
The results reflect the spread of conspiracy theories that have dominated discussion over the financier's death that authorities have repeatedly dismissed.
Epstein was being held without bail at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking. His August 10 death prompted a federal investigation into the conditions at the jail. The FBI and the Justice Department also launched investigations into his death.
Since Epstein's death, details have emerged about incidents of broken protocol at the facility, including guards reportedly sleeping on their shift, Epstein being housed alone, and severe staffing shortages in the facility.
After the New York chief medical examiner deemed the cause of death to be suicide, pointing to multiple broken bones in his neck, Epstein's lawyers said in a statement that they were "not satisfied" with the conclusion and blamed broken protocol amid the "medieval conditions" of the prison for Epstein's death.
At a court hearing Tuesday, one of Epstein's lawyers suggested that the broken neck bones were actually more consistent with homicide and asked the judge to investigate Epstein's death in court, in addition to probing the poor conditions and mismanagement that has been reported on at the facility.
Epstein was arrested and charged in July with conspiracy and sex trafficking of minors. In late July, Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell after what appeared to be a suicide attempt. He was hospitalized, then returned to his cell, where he was set to be monitored on suicide watch.
He was not on suicide watch at the time of his death two weeks later, multiple sources told NBC News.
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstein-suicide-death-poll-2019-8c
The older I get al, the less I like this world. So much bad chit just beneath the surface
How Convenient. Camera Footage Outside of Epstein’s Prison Cell Deemed Unusable
by Cristina Laila August 26, 2019
One of the cameras outside of Epstein’s prison cell where the convicted pedophile died earlier this month captured footage that is unusable, according to SF Gate.
It is unclear why the footage is unusable, however it is adding to the list of inconsistencies and strange coincidences surrounding Epstein’s death while in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
SF Gate reported: At least one camera in the hallway outside the cell where authorities say registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself earlier this month had footage that is unusable, although other, clearer footage was captured in the area, according to three people briefed on the evidence gathered earlier this month.
It was not immediately clear why some video footage outside Epstein’s cell is too flawed for investigators to use or what is visible in the other, usable footage. The incident is being investigated by the FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office, which are attempting to determine what happened and how to assess whether any policies were violated or crimes committed.
It’s unclear whether the flaw in the taping affected a limited duration of the footage or whether it was a chronic problem in the beleaguered facility.
66-year-old financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his prison cell a few weeks ago on a Saturday morning and the medical examiner ruled his death a suicide by hanging.
Epstein was found hanging in his cell from his bunk bed with a prison bedsheet wrapped around his head.
Epstein, who is 6 feet tall, reportedly secured the bedsheet to the top bunk bed and wrapped the sheet around his neck.
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Epstein's death reveals the outrageous state of federal prisons
Opinion by Eric Young
Updated 6:50 AM ET, Tue August 20, 2019
Eric Young is president of the AFGE Council of Prison Locals, which represents more than 33,000 U.S. Bureau of Prison employees nationwide. This editorial reflects his personal views as a citizen and as president of the AFGE Council of Prison Locals. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.
(CNN)The apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein has put a spotlight on issues inside the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) that our union, the American Federation of Government Employee's Council of Prison Locals, has been raising for years.
The Council of Prison Locals represents more than 30,000 law enforcement professionals who work inside federal prisons. They manage about 180,000 of the worst criminals in our country, including terrorists, drug kingpins, gangsters and murderers. Correctional officer to inmate ratio is 9.3 to 1 and it can even be more depending on the security level of the prison. Prisons that depend on correctional officers to regularly work extreme overtime, or call on non-security staff to fill vacant officer posts only add to the burden of our brave correctional workers. Despite these challenges, we have kept America safe.
From 1990, the federal inmate population more than tripled over the course of two decades but staffing levels did not keep pace. The population has declined in recent years, due in part to the endorsement of meaningful criminal justice and sentencing reforms like the First Step Act. However, BOP continues to suffer from overcrowding and severe staff shortages at many institutions. Many facilities are plagued with contraband, such as cellphones, synthetic drugs and manufactured weapons.
In testimony before Congress last April, Attorney General William Barr acknowledged that the administration's hiring freeze contributed to the staffing shortages, noting that staffing in the BOP is an area where "we stumbled." Thankfully, Barr moved swiftly to lift the hiring freeze and has worked to implement policies that will help BOP with recruitment, relocation, and retention of current staff, particularly in high-need areas.
In the interim, to ensure federal prisons operate safely despite the shortages, staff are called upon to work overtime, often many times a week. Even this is not enough to fully address the needs of the prisons, so the agency relies on a practice known as "augmentation" to fill a mission-critical roster. Through augmentation, staff who are not correctional officers -- including secretaries, teachers, nurses, and cooks -- perform the duties of officers, including supervising inmates in the housing units, on the recreation yards, and elsewhere. These staff are critical members of our security contingent who risk their lives to make sure vital duties are performed, but they are ill equipped to replace experienced correctional officers who know the inmates and the responsibilities of their assigned posts.
Correctional officers in the Special Housing Unit (SHU), like the facility where Epstein was held, are overloaded with assignments even before you factor in mandatory overtime and augmentation. They are charged with making multiple, accurate counts of every inmate in every cell during their shift. They are responsible for creating multiple reports during each shift that give supervisors insight into key details about each individual inmate and their activities. They must ensure inmates are provided showers, recreation time, and visits with attorneys and others. Officers regularly inventory and maintain inmates' property, search cells, and secure common areas in the unit, making sure these spaces are free of contraband that could pose a threat to prison staff or inmates. And they must inspect all food given to prisoners, ensuring that daily meals don't turn dangerous. There is a lot to get done in 8 hours -- what would be a typical work day for many people -- even if you are well-rested, experienced, and everything goes according to plan.
It is not surprising that when officers work 60-80 hours per week, with non-security staff filling in, fatigue sets in, allowing shortcuts and other mistakes to be made. The volume, and duration of staff working regularly scheduled overtime has hit a crisis systemwide. Even truck drivers and pilots have public safety laws to protect them with minimum time off to prevent loss of alertness and mental clarity. Our law enforcement professionals deserve the same. Having a "body" on shift does not mean proficiency, nor does it mean an individual will perform at a level necessary to make sound correctional judgement.
The damage from years of underfunding and understaffing will take time to repair, but it's doable -- if Congress and the administration take action now rather than sit by awaiting the next tragedy. They must address the woefully inadequate wages of correctional officers that lag far behind those of other law enforcement officers in the Department of Justice and elsewhere in government. In places like Manhattan, it's extremely difficult to fill vacancies in part due to the high cost of living. Due to the low wages, most of the staff have no choice but to commute great distances to and from work from other states.
The Council of Prison Locals worked with the Bureau of Prisons executive staff this year to implement an incentive program to attract staff to fill the vacancies, but it will take months to see improvement in hiring. Even still, it would not be enough for a place like Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.
Ultimately, we need to significantly adjust the "Grade and Step" pay scale for our law enforcement professionals who are at the bottom of the GS pay scale. The work we do for the American people, putting our lives on the line everyday, working inside the dangerous environs of our federal prisons, we deserve better. Only then will BOP be able to rectify the severe understaffing and over-reliance on augmentation that have long plagued our agency, which has recently been highlighted by members of Congress.
My union is committed to working with AG Barr, BOP leadership, and Congress to address the staffing shortages and fulfill our mission to maintain order and reduce crime in our prisons.
Why couldn’t the visionaries at MIT spot a bad actor like Jeffrey Epstein?
In Jeffrey Epstein’s bid to launder his dirty deeds by claiming academic respectability, for a time it seemed his heart was with Harvard, the fantasy alma mater to which he promised tens of millions of dollars.
Yet it is neighborhood rival MIT that is now singing the blues.
The disgraced and now-deceased serial molester and accused sex trafficker cultivated a vast network of superstar scientists and other thinkers as acquaintances. The relationships seem to have been fundamentally transactional. Pedigree thinkers and scholars provided vast intellectual capital. Epstein provided capital in the more traditional sense — seed money for their projects— with travel on Epstein’s private jet, or trips to his private island sometimes included.
I’m sure it beat lunch in the faculty club.
But it has come with a steep price — including in the surprising venue of the MIT Media Lab, where two high-powered researchers severed ties this month in protest of Epstein’s patronage. Calls are growing for the resignation of the head of the lab, Joi Ito.
AIto was forced to publicly apologize for taking Epstein’s money both on behalf of the lab and for his own projects outside of it. It didn’t help that some of those investments had never been disclosed before publicly. Or that a substantial part of the money had been donated subsequent to Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida for soliciting a minor for prostitution.
Epstein, of course, is the shadowy financier who committed suicide in a federal correctional center in New York earlier this month while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking of minors. His death has done little to quiet the controversy over his alleged years of exploiting girls and young women. Many of his victims are filing lawsuits against his estate, pursuing the justice they were denied during his life.
Epstein’s ties to Harvard — to which he had pledged $30 million, but actually donated around $6 million — were well known. So was his interest in funding science, a subject for which he had an autodidact’s passion.
His ties to MIT were less well known. And at the Media Lab, an unconventional academic institution that considers itself to be a laboratory designing the future, support from an alleged serial abuser has raised cries of betrayal.
One of the researchers who says he is leaving, Ethan Zuckerman, head of the Center for Civic Media, is one of the organizers of the “Disobedience Award,” which last year honored activists in the #metoo movement. In a post on Medium, he said that he knew he had to leave as soon as he became aware of the scope of Epstein’s involvement in the Lab, including his investment in Ito’s private ventures.
This episode should prompt some real soul-searching at MIT — and especially at the Media Lab, where academic work and entrepreneurship go hand in glove. While Epstein is obviously an extreme example of a bad benefactor, this terrain is rife with the potential for ugly conflicts.
Just how rife is now becoming clear.
In an extraordinary move, MIT’s president, L. Rafael Reif, apologized for taking money from foundations controlled by Epstein. Reif further pledged to commit an equivalent sum to organizations benefiting Epstein’s victims, or other victims of sexual abuse. That’s a good start.
What the future holds for Ito — until last week a highly regarded leader — is unclear. Perhaps he can make a persuasive case that he can lead the kind of change that will weed out bad actors with fat checkbooks but dubious intentions. Or, just as likely, his willingness to associate with Epstein and take his money even after his conviction will prove an insurmountable obstacle to staying.
The success of a grifter like Epstein always raises haunting questions. Among them are why so many brilliant minds couldn’t see past his money and veneer of glamour. Jeffrey Epstein was a walking red flag. But somehow visionaries who claim to see into the future were oblivious to the horror right before their eyes.
Adrian Walker is a Globe columnist. E-mail him at adrian.walker@globe.com. Or follow him on Twitter @adrian_walker.
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Comments to the Vanity Fair article by Gateway Pundit
Ron Stanford • 6 hours ago
Remember when the Oscars gave a standing ovation to Roman Polanski?
Remember when Whoopie Goldberg explained that Polanski was guilty of "rape, but not rape-rape"?
Remember John Goodman ridiculing Linda Trippe?
Remember the hidden videos by James O'Keefe showing ACORN helping a pimp import 13 year old girls to be used as sex slaves?
Remember Bill Clinton being treated as the heart of the Democrat Party?
YogicCowboy Ron Stanford • 3 hours ago
And when Clinton's immorality while in office - and literally in the Oval Office - could no longer be denied, prominent feminists defended him by arrogantly asserting, "All men are dogs." I still seethe at the thought.
ChiTownGal YogicCowboy • 2 hours ago
Those feminists? have no integrity...nor should they be called ladies.
Karen Myers Ron Stanford • 4 hours ago
I've seen this since I got married in 1972. Wet T-shirt contest. Exc. I was the prude. Of course it ended in divorce. No moral marriage can survive immorality.•
On The Mark • 7 hours ago
Vanity Unfair.
Pelatiah Adams On The Mark • 6 hours ago
How much money did the eds and writers make off this evil creep? Wonder if they know they are accessories, if not in the actual crimes, they are MORAL accessories. God has a way of evening this stuff out, in the end.
DZ-015 On The Mark • 7 hours ago • edited
That's certainly fair to say. Did Graydon Carter fly on da plen! da plen! to the island?
Ravenkeep DZ-015 • 6 hours ago
Or on a commercial plane to Albuquerque, then a 1 hour ride to Epstein's Zorro ranch south of Santa Fe. There is little exposure to the New Mexico ranch in what might be an equally (and more private) pedophile frolic camp.
Evan Strong • 7 hours ago
Most of the media is bought and paid for by leftist interests. I don't believe a thing they write/say anymore. Trump was so right from the start when he called them the enemy of the people.
RangersFan56 Evan Strong • 7 hours ago
I agree. And that is why we have an alternative or independent media, which was around and growing long before Trump’s candidacy and helped him win in 2016. Thank the Lord for independent voices like TGP
67hwell • 7 hours ago
Behind every sexual predator
Is a liberal enabler
Gregory Gains ? ?????????? 67hwell • 7 hours ago
DNC/Democrats
ChiTownGal 67hwell • 2 hours ago
HRC comes to mind many many many times.
KittenWithWhip • 7 hours ago
Vanity Fair is the rag for elite wannabes. Just one more enemy of the people.
hidad • 6 hours ago
Oh....so Vanity Fair and ABC are both guilty of aiding and abetting a KNOWN SEX OFFENDER by not reporting the crime to the police/authorities? Money doesn't talk....IT SCREAMS. That makes them accomplices in the crime. They should be PROSECUTED TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW.
Karen Myers hidad • 4 hours ago
Right on
Smallaxebigtree • 6 hours ago
And little wonder , imagine how deep this goes , ADAs , DAs, judges, upper level police and city hall apparatchiks, movers and shakers at the highest levels were complicit in some way with this vile man .
Pete • 7 hours ago
Makes you wonder how many people of power Epstein had leverage on!
Eddie Blake Pete • 7 hours ago
We know for certain that at least one had the pull to Arkancide him in prison. That is real POWER!
Brew City Pete • 6 hours ago
In this Banana republic, we'll never know
Sapper 9 • 7 hours ago
Where have we heard of media outlets killing stories before?????
M. D'Souza Sapper 9 • 7 hours ago
During All of the Clinton's presidential campaign & also that of Barack Hussein Obama. The latter had the best benefit out of the media killing stories.
Sapper 9 M. D'Souza • 5 hours ago • edited
Obama's connections to Rev Wright and Louis Farrakhan, seemed to have been buried quite deep by the Media.
and many more. See link to article on previous post
Vanity Fair Interviewed Epstein’s Accusers but Never Published Their Report After Epstein Visited Offices
by Jim Hoft August 25, 2019 92 Comments
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The Epoch Times reported on Sunday that ABC and Vanity Fair both interviewed Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers but never published their reports.
And, Vanity Fair pulled their report after Jeffrey Epstein visited the then editor-in-chief at the magazine.
It makes you wonder how many times this was repeated with other so-called news organizations?
The Epoch Times reported:
ABC and Vanity Fair interviewed girls who said they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein but never published the interviews.
Maria and Annie Farmer said that Epstein’s longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, met them and convinced them to meet Epstein.
They said Maria was sexually assaulted by both Epstein and Maxwell and that Annie, 15 at the time, was sexually assaulted by Epstein at his ranch in New Mexico.
The girls were interviewed by Vanity Fair but the story the outlet published on Epstein included no mention of the girls.
Before it was published, Epstein himself had shown up at the Vanity Fair offices and spoke to then-editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, reported NPR.
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At MIT, more fallout from the university’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein
By Deirdre Fernandes Globe Staff,August 20, 2019, 7:28 p.m.
A well-known member of the MIT Media Lab plans to resign in protest over revelations that the research center and its top leader took money from Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased financier who was accused of trafficking in underage girls.
Ethan Zuckerman, director of the lab’s Center for Civic Media, last week told officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of his plans.
Late Tuesday, he told the Globe that “I’m working with my students and staff to move my work out of the Media Lab. That might involve moving to another part of MIT. It might mean moving elsewhere.”
He also posted a fuller explanation on the Medium website
Zuckerman was among the chief organizers of the Media Lab’s annual Disobedience Award, which recognizes risk-takers and rabble-rousers and last year honored #MeToo activists.
In a note to the past award winners, Zuckerman said he was “heartbroken” about his decision.
“I am ashamed of my institution today and starting the hard work of figuring out how to leave the Lab while taking care of my students and staff,” Zuckerman wrote in a note that was obtained by The Boston Globe. “I no longer feel I can continue working on issues of social justice under the banner of the Media Lab.”
Zuckerman said that Joi Ito, the Media Lab’s director, failed to be transparent about Epstein’s funding of the lab and the money that Ito took from Epstein for his personal investments in tech startups.
Zuckerman declined to discuss his decision to leave but confirmed he sent the message to previous winners of the Disobedience Award.
“I felt obligated as one of the organizers of the prize to express my dismay over Joi’s revelations and explain some of the actions I am taking as a result of those revelations,” Zuckerman said in an e-mail on Tuesday.
Last week, Ito apologized publicly for the lab’s ties to Epstein. In an open letter, Ito acknowledged for the first time that he had invited Epstein to the Media Lab, traveled to the financier’s homes, and accepted money from him for both the research center and for Ito’s own investments.
Ito said he met Epstein in 2013, five years after Epstein had pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor for prostitution and served a year in jail.
In his apology, Ito said he would raise the equivalent to what Epstein gave the Media Lab and donate it to nonprofits that work with survivors of trafficking. He also promised to return the money Epstein invested in his funds.
Ito was one of several academics in recent weeks to try to distance himself from Epstein.
Over decades, Epstein nurtured a reputation as a “science philanthropist” and surrounded himself with biologists, mathematicians, physicists, and artificial intelligence researchers, including icons at MIT and Harvard University.
Epstein feted them on his private island and in his lavish homes and funded their research.
Epstein was found dead earlier this month in his jail cell at a federal detention facility in Manhattan, where he was being held on charges of sex trafficking of minors.
Neither MIT nor Ito have been specific about how much money Epstein donated.
According to publicly available documents, Epstein’s foundation and nonprofit gave MIT at least $200,000.
Epstein’s contributions to the Media Lab were controversial dating back to 2015. At that time, allegations had surfaced that Epstein forced an underage girl to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew, and several organizations said they would stop taking his money. Epstein had bragged in press releases and on his website about providing funding to MIT, including for a Media Lab venture that taught toddlers programming. However, MIT at the time said that Epstein was “completely incorrect”
about his financing of the children’s technology, according to Reuters.
MIT officials have not disclosed what projects Epstein’s donations funded.
Still, Epstein remained an esteemed donor at the Media Lab.
In 2017, the Media Lab made Epstein and other select donors “orbs” to thank them for their contributions. The orbs were similar to the trophies presented a few months earlier to the winners of the Disobedience Award — basically a giant version of a child’s marbleAn MIT official said the gift to Epstein “was not a Disobedience Award or a replica,” but declined to explain the differences.
That year marked the inaugural celebration of the Disobedience Award, and the Media Lab honored the scientists who drew attention to lead-contaminated water in Flint, Mich.
The Media Lab’s Epstein ties and Zuckerman’s resignation have been dismaying, said Sherry Marts, one of last year’s prize winners, who works with academic trade groups and nonprofits to combat bullying and harassment.
Marts said she is struggling to understand how Ito hung out with Epstein, yet at the same time helped start an award that most recently honored female activists trying to combat harassment and abuse
“It’s kind of creepy,” Marts said. “I’m still wrestling with it.”
Mona Eltahawy, an Arab activist and feminist author who was a featured speaker at last year’s Disobedience Award, said Ito should resign.
Many people justified taking money from Epstein because they never saw him behaving badly, Eltahawy said.
But Epstein used those donations to polish his reputation and build his stature, and it came at the expense of young girls, she said.
“Everyone must be held accountable,” Eltahawy said.
In his note, Zuckerman said he believes Ito is trying to make amends. Zuckerman said he and Ito exchanged several e-mails last week.
In one, Ito “told me, ‘I allowed myself to be exactly THAT MAN who ignores the signs of the predators who don’t show that side of themselves to their colleagues,’ ” Zuckerman said.
Deirdre Fernandes
can be reached at deirdre.fernandes@globe.com.
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Jeffrey Epstein lawsuits offer sordid details, including sex while on work release
By David Ovalle Miami Herald
August 20,2019
While serving a lenient jail sentence in Palm Beach County, wealthy financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to leave jail for “work release” — at an office at his own organization, the Florida Science Foundation.
But at the foundation, according to a newly filed lawsuit, Epstein and his web of associates repeatedly arranged for sex with at least two girls, including one he met when she was 17.
“Jeffrey Epstein, through his brazen and powerful organization, was quite literally able to commit federal sex trafficking offenses at his work release office, during his jail sentence,” according to the lawsuit by a woman identified only as Kaitlyn Doe.
The allegation was included in a trio of lawsuits filed Tuesday by three women who have now come forward to allege that Epstein abused them over years, dangling promises of riches and stability.
The lawsuits are but the latest legal twist in the saga of Epstein, 66, the powerful and well-connected financier found hanged Aug. 10 in a Manhattan detention center while awaiting federal sex trafficking charges. The death has been determined to be a suicide.
The lawsuits were filed against Epstein’s estate and other entities suspected of helping Epstein travel the world, often with an entourage of young women, hopscotching to and from homes in Palm Beach, Manhattan, Paris, New Mexico and on his private island in the Caribbea
New lawsuits detail how Epstein allegedly lured victims
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Three more alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein filed lawsuits overnight against the convicted sex offender's estate. The suits claim that Epstein forcibly used a sex toy on one victim and confiscated the passport of another so that she couldn't leave his Caribbean island.
One lawsuit even alleges that following his 2008 conviction on child prostitution charges, Epstein used his work-release program as a front for more sexual abuse. Victims' attorneys said the lawsuits aren't just about going after the multimillionaire's fortune -- they're intended to get justice for the women whose lives he allegedly ruined before his suicide in a New York City jail cell.
"We want to hold the Epstein organization to account first, it's not primarily about money," said attorney Stan Pottinger. Pottinger represents 20 Epstein accusers, including the three women who filed civil lawsuits overnight.
"All of them are against the Epstein estate and various companies that he had as part of his scheme or syndicate or… the organization that he had that helped him round up girls," Pottinger said.
The lawsuit brought by "Lisa Doe" claims an Epstein associate hired Lisa, then 17, "to teach a dance-based exercise class" at Epstein's townhouse. In later interactions, Epstein allegedly solicited massages, "used a sex toy on her, forcibly" and ultimately demanded that she "go to her dance studio and find other dancers.
"The lawsuit filed by "Katlyn Doe" alleges Epstein sexually abused her when she was 17 and coerced her to "lose her virginity to him" after she turned 18. It also claims Epstein forced her to marry an associate who wasn't a U.S. citizen so they could stay in the country to recruit more girls.
The lawsuit brought by "Priscilla Doe," who was 20 when she first met Epstein, is the only one to name his purported ex-girlfriend-turned-business associate, Ghislaine Maxwell.
Priscilla claims Maxwell taught her "the proper way" to sexually pleasure Epstein while on a trip to his island in the Caribbean -- and alleges Epstein at one point confiscated her passport so she couldn't leave the island voluntarily. Maxwell is not charged with a crime and has previously denied recruiting women for Epstein.
Priscilla's lawsuit also mentions some of Epstein's powerful friends. She said she once met the sultan of Dubai with Epstein, and on another occasion, was forced to serve hors d'oeuvres at a private party Epstein had with director Woody Allen.
CBS News has confirmed that Epstein filed a will in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where he owned a home, just two days before his suicide in a New York City jail cell.
All three lawsuits take aim at Epstein's fortune, which his will reveals to be worth nearly $578 million. Epstein's brother, Mark, is his only listed heir.
After Epstein's suicide, the criminal sex trafficking charges against him effectively died. But Pottinger said the pursuit of justice is very much alive.
"I think the government, while it has been taken off track briefly by this untimely death, I think that they're not giving up," he said.
The new lawsuits come after Attorney General William Barr on Monday removed the acting director of the federal Bureau of Prisons amid mounting evidence of irregularities at the facility where Epstein was held before his suicide.
The Last Days Of Jeffrey Epstein
By Ali Watkins, Danielle Ivory and Christina Goldbaum New York Times
August 17, 2019, 5:31 p.m.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/08/17/the-last-days-jeffrey-epstein/ZLZ8tdw3FIIpZeXuWUposK/story.html?et_rid=692192707&s_campaign=todaysheadlines:newsletter
Jeffrey Epstein tried to leverage his wealth to survive in jail: report
By Eileen AJ Connelly and Mara Siegler
August 17, 2019 | 3:18pm | Updated
He couldn’t buy his freedom — but he could buy vending machine snacks, the “friendship” of fellow inmates, and hours on end away from his cell meeting with lawyers.
Millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein spread his wealth around as much as he could in the month before he committed suicide on Aug. 10 at the federal Manhattan Correctional Center, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Epstein deposited money in at least three other inmates’ commissary accounts in an attempt to ingratiate himself and possibly buy protection from the hardened criminals in the MCC’s Special Housing Unit, where he awaited trial on a massive underage sex trafficking indictment, outlet reported.
To escape the misery of his damp, mouse and roach infested cell, the disgraced money manager would pay a staff of lawyers to meet for up to 12 hours at a time in a private attorney-client meeting room.
His entourage would routinely empty the two adjacent vending machines of drinks and snacks.
“It was shift work, all designed by someone who had infinite resources to try and get as much comfort as possible,” a lawyer who was often in the jail visiting clients told the outlet.
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At times, at least, the perks worked to lift his spirits.
A lawyer who met with Epstein in early August claimed he was “very very upbeat” — an account that jibes with what sources told The Post about his spirits in the days before he apparently killed himself.
Attorney David Schoen told paper he met with Epstein for roughly five hours, and had expected to join his legal team.
“One thing I can say for sure is when I left him he was very, very upbeat,” said Schoen, who was ultimately never hired.
But in the week before his death, Epstein appeared more and more haggard and unkempt, lawyers and prison staff told The Times.
“He’s deprived of communication with third parties, looked disheveled, sleeping on the floor sometimes,” one lawyer told the paper.
He spent his last day sitting for hours with his lawyers, and would have been well aware that a court had that day released a damaging trove of some 2,000 pages of documents from a prior defamation lawsuit by one of his accusers.
Then, back to the dankness and vermin of his cell, which The Times said was positioned so that a small window would have allowed Epstein to see if the guards tasked with monitoring him were awake or — as prison officials now charge — asleep.
The city Medical Examiner’s Office has concluded his death was a suicide.
On Saturday, Epstein’s former attorney Alan Dershowitz told The Post that despite the murder conspiracies swirling around the pedophile’s death, he is certain his former client just gave up. “I think he killed himself because he didn’t want to spend the rest of his life in prison,” Dershowitz said.
“He did a cost-benefit analysis, and thought he’d be better off dead.”
Additional reporting by Laura Italiano
So the way I see it now is Jeffrey Epstein may have killed himself with possible institutional help. But it's far from clear, yet.
Kevin Prongay
That deal in south Fla. was orchestrated by many Democrat friends of Epstein in the Obama Justice Departmment. Alex Acosta was directed to allow the political fix to be executed under a prior president.
Acosta merely followed orders issued from the D. C. Justice Department.
Jeffrey Epstein’s body claimed by mystery ‘associate’
By Lia Eustachewich
August 16, 2019 | 7:55am | Updated
Jeffrey Epstein’s body has been claimed from the Medical Examiner’s Office in New York by a mystery “associate,” according to a new report.
The person who claimed the 66-year-old convicted pedophile’s body earlier this week wasn’t identified, according to NBC News.
Epstein died Saturday in an apparent suicide by hanging in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
The wealthy perv, who wasn’t on suicide watch at the time, had not been checked on for several hours.
The jail’s warden, Lamine N’Daiye, was reassigned pending a federal investigation and two MCC staffers who were assigned to Epstein’s unit that day were put on leave.
Paul Smith
How many coincidences does it take before they are no longer seen as coincidences. Cell mate transferred, Mysteriously removed from Suicide Watch, Guards miss 30 minute check rounds and camera's malfunction. While I'm not a conspiracy nut, at some point rational people conclude that there logically just can't be that many coincidences. Add that with the very influential people that may be implicated or feel their reputations would be tarnished by association or cause them to have to provide evidence of uncomfortable situations to clear themselves. In this specific case, it really doesn't require any unconventional thinking to conclude that foul play may have been involved here.
Epstein's butler served more time than Epstein
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/epstein-butler-alfredo-rodriguez-served-more-time-in-prison-than-than-epstein-he-died-before-disclosing-location-of-epsteins-black-book/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=weekend
Not clear on ihubber jhnvtjll's point. I think possibly he wants to lend motivation
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=150509888
Multiple fractures not common in lean into suicides
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/dr-cyril-wecht-on-epstein-death-have-not-seen-multiple-fractures-in-simple-leaning-into-suicide-hanging-in-examining-over-20000-autopsies-video/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=the-gateway-pundit&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=weekend
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