After the FBI failed to act on Maria Farmer’s
report in 1996—while the FBI was
under the authority of President Clinton—Epstein and his colleagues reportedly assaulted, raped, and
trafficked dozens of girls on
hundreds of occasions over the next decade.
In 2002, another chance to stop Epstein arose when a Vanity Fair reporter
uncovered evidence that he had sexually abused two sisters. But the editor of Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter,
removed the evidence from a
lengthy profile of Epstein published by the magazine. After Epstein was arrested, Carter made
provably false excuses for his actions.
In 2005, it seemed Epstein was about to be held accountable when the family of a 14-year-old girl reported to the
Palm Beach Police that Epstein molested their daughter. The police responded with an aggressive investigation that initially produced “sworn taped statements” about Epstein’s illicit activities from “five victims and seventeen witnesses.”
The police also searched Epstein’s home and trash, finding
compelling evidence of his guilt, including the names and phone numbers of the girls who made the accusations and notes about when they were due to come over.
By the time the investigation was complete, the
police had “identified approximately 20 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who were sexually abused by Epstein.”
However, the local prosecutor, a
Democrat named Barry Krischer, only charged Epstein with prostitution
without interviewing any of the victims. Outraged by this and other “highly unusual” actions of Krischer’s office, the Palm Beach Police Chief sent Krischer a
letter suggesting that he should be disqualified “from the prosecution of these cases.”
The Palm Beach Police also
alerted the FBI, which
took control of the case and
shut out the police.
Then the U.S. Department of Justice—which was
under the authority of George W. Bush—
worked with Krischer to craft a
secretive deal with Epstein. This consisted of a non-prosecution agreement that
smeared Epstein’s
schoolgirl victims as
prostitutes and allowed Epstein to plead guilty to two relatively minor violations of
state law.
The feds made that deal despite the fact that
they had “identified 40 young women who can be characterized as victims” of Epstein under federal law against the “
Sexual Exploitation and Other Abuse of Children.”
Krischer later
denied that he had anything to do with the deal, but the threat of a lawsuit by the
Palm Beach Post forced his office to release a cache of documents that proves he played an integral role in it. In one
incriminating email, Krischer wrote to a federal prosecutor about the deal, “Glad we could get this worked out for reasons I won’t put in writing.”
Under the agreement, Epstein was
required to register as a sex offender, serve 18 months in a county jail, and spend a year under “community control” (a mild form of house arrest with numerous exceptions which allowed Epstein to
travel extensively). Moreover, Epstein only served
13 months in jail—and during most of that time—he was allowed
leave the jail for 12 hours a day, six days a week under a “work release” program at a non-profit he ran.
In exchange for Epstein agreeing to those terms, the federal government promised it would
never press “any criminal charges” against
Epstein or “any” of his “potential co-conspirators” for an array of
federal child sex crimes committed in Florida during 2001 to 2007.
In 2019, a
federal court ruled that the Department of Justice concealed that non-prosecution agreement from Epstein’s victims in violation of the
Crime Victims’ Rights Act. This law requires the government to keep crime victims informed and involved with any legal actions in their cases. The court also found that the Department of Justice
deceived the victims by telling them to be “patient” while the investigation was ongoing, when in fact, the feds had already agreed to never prosecute Epstein for the crimes he committed against them.
After this episode, Epstein switched tactics to better conceal his crimes. According to the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands where Epstein owned two
private islands,
Epstein “began to focus on procuring and abusing women from Eastern Europe” because their “immigration status and language barriers made them more isolated, dependent, and vulnerable to Epstein’s abuse and manipulation.”
Those victims
included “numerous girls between the age of 12 and 17 years old” who were forced “into sexual servitude in service of Epstein’s desires, and those of his associates.”
Finally, President Trump’s Department of Justice arrested Epstein in 2019 for
sex trafficking of minors. That’s where the story really gets interesting.
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by Occam's Banana
Connect With Us