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Jeffrey Epstein arrested on sex trafficking charges

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 136 ✭✭FartyBlartFast


    I'm curious why it is that you (or Trump supporters generally) seem to feel it is your duty to defend Trump without knowledge of the facts?

    You're arguing without facts. Accusations of child rape require facts. Defence of that accusation does not.
    There are plenty of facts. Epstein had Clinton on his plane 26 times - this is a fact.

    Epstein was a regular at maralago which he used as a recruiting ground while having private parties with just him and Trump and some lady friends, and Trump has commented on Epstein liking them young.

    Clinton has many past allegations of sexual abuse and has been caught lying about previous relationships (Lewinsky), while Trump also has many past allegations of sexual abuse, and is on camera bragging about molesting women. He also hired the guy who gave Epstein a sweetheart deal as his secretary of labour.

    Both Clinton and Trump have rushed out to get ahead of this story also, as soon as Epstein was arrested.

    Like I said, I am not claiming either are guilty or innocent until we know the full facts, but there is quite a bit of smoke surrounding both of them here. Trying to claim one is innocent while the other is guilty on the basis of the info we have is nothing short of dishonest.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,126 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    There are plenty of facts. Epstein had Clinton on his plane 26 times - this is a fact.

    Epstein was a regular at maralago which he used as a recruiting ground while having private parties with just him and Trump and some lady friends, and Trump has commented on Epstein liking them young.

    Clinton has many past allegations of sexual abuse and has been caught lying about previous relationships (Lewinsky), while Trump also has many past allegations of sexual abuse, and is on camera bragging about molesting women. He also hired the guy who gave Epstein a sweetheart deal as his secretary of labour.

    Both Clinton and Trump have rushed out to get ahead of this story also, as soon as Epstein was arrested.

    Like I said, I am not claiming either are guilty or innocent until we know the full facts, but there is quite a bit of smoke surrounding both of them here. Trying to claim one is innocent while the other is guilty on the basis of the info we have is nothing short of dishonest.

    You've those so called facts a little over stated. 26 times on a plane isn't much if your trip is around Africa and back over a month. Everyone was at marlargo, he was barred from there by Trump when a complaint was made. A lot of recruiting went on by other girls in schools near there in Palm beach, Epstein has a mansion there.
    Trump has been well ahead of this in calling it out and dropped Bills name in it along with Epstein.
    It's not fair to lump bill or don in at the moment as there not involved in these current charges and the old sweetheart deal documents won't be used for this trail.
    The ones that staid partying with Epstein after his last wrap should be in the spotlight.
    Maxwell has a few questions to answer. They seem like a pair of anything goes pimps to the uber wealthy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,248 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    There are plenty of facts. Epstein had Clinton on his plane 26 times - this is a fact.

    Epstein was a regular at maralago which he used as a recruiting ground while having private parties with just him and Trump and some lady friends, and Trump has commented on Epstein liking them young.

    Clinton has many past allegations of sexual abuse and has been caught lying about previous relationships (Lewinsky), while Trump also has many past allegations of sexual abuse, and is on camera bragging about molesting women. He also hired the guy who gave Epstein a sweetheart deal as his secretary of labour.

    Both Clinton and Trump have rushed out to get ahead of this story also, as soon as Epstein was arrested.

    Like I said, I am not claiming either are guilty or innocent until we know the full facts, but there is quite a bit of smoke surrounding both of them here. Trying to claim one is innocent while the other is guilty on the basis of the info we have is nothing short of dishonest.

    If you are guilty you need to go down.
    This goes way beyond politics.

    Unfortunately money means more than facts.


  • Registered Users Posts: 35,841 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    What are charges against him this time? Seems no one knows exactly why he's being held. They found some photos in his New York home>? Photos of someone that made be under 18, so it sounds like she's late teens. I don't see him doing much time for this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,126 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    What are charges against him this time? Seems no one knows exactly why he's being held. They found some photos in his New York home>? Photos of someone that made be under 18, so it sounds like she's late teens. I don't see him doing much time for this.

    Epstein was arrested under a sealed federal indictment and charged with one count of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. It's a catch all but they can hold him with it. The bail hearing is Monday he may get out but I doubt it if this is as serious as it looks.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,172 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    What are charges against him this time? Seems no one knows exactly why he's being held. They found some photos in his New York home>? Photos of someone that made be under 18, so it sounds like she's late teens. I don't see him doing much time for this.

    Is this post a joke? Read the article I linked.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,172 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    I personally think it's unlikely he knowingly got involved with any underage girls, doesn't mean he couldn't be in trouble though.

    If this guy doesn't go down for this people should be out on the streets, how is this not one of the biggest scandals in US history? He's another version of Jimmy Saville.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    What are charges against him this time? Seems no one knows exactly why he's being held. They found some photos in his New York home>? Photos of someone that made be under 18, so it sounds like she's late teens. I don't see him doing much time for this.

    I wouldn't trust anybody in authority when it comes to determining the age of naked females if previous cases are anything to go by at least.

    There was a case here in Northern Ireland of someone being charged for possession of CP but it turned out the images were all of an American porn star. Can't remember off hand which porn star the pics were of, so can't link the case, but I'll post it up if it comes to mind.

    A similar one was that of a New York pediatrician who bought a porno DVD on vacation in Venezuela. On his return passing through Puerto Rico he was arrested and charged with distribution and possession of CP and banged up to await trial.

    In the meantime his lawyers contacted the pornstar (Little Lupe) and she agreed to fly to Puerto Rico and be a witness at his trial. She did and he was released. Now that's a happy ending.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    I foresee one very bad outcome of the embattled labor secretary Acosta’s resignation over the 2008 plea deal when he was a federal prosecutor in Florida. Prosecutors will be running scared from now on as a plea deal, which are considered light, might follow them their entire professional life as attitudes change over time. Plea deals are usually offered when the prosecutors case is a bit weak in its foundation. From now on I think you will see prosecutors not offering plea deals and taking weak cases to trial. And many of those trials will result in not guilty verdicts which will also stand in any double jeopardy circumstances. So some bad guys will get to walk away free rather than at least serving some time for crimes committed.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    I wouldn't trust anybody in authority when it comes to determining the age of naked females if previous cases are anything to go by at least.

    There was a case here in Northern Ireland of someone being charged for possession of CP but it turned out the images were all of an American porn star. Can't remember off hand which porn star the pics were of, so can't link the case, but I'll post it up if it comes to mind.

    A similar one was that of a New York pediatrician who bought a porno DVD on vacation in Venezuela. On his return passing through Puerto Rico he was arrested and charged with distribution and possession of CP and banged up to await trial.

    In the meantime his lawyers contacted the pornstar (Little Lupe) and she agreed to fly to Puerto Rico and be a witness at his trial. She did and he was released. Now that's a happy ending.

    We know for a fact the children were 14/15. The authorities know this. We know for a fact he has previous for same with children. This isn't #ibelieveher he has a record. There are actual underage children being questioned.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭Cheerful Spring2


    Esptein denied bail.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/18/jeffrey-epstein-denied-bail-while-awaiting-sex-trafficking-trial

    We just waiting now for 2,000 documents to be released by the court. Journalists are hoping the names of people who were involved are listed.

    https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-case-grows-more-grotesque


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭Cheerful Spring2


    Is it not the case that Acosta was informed by his higher ups that Epstein was an Intelligence Asset and that was the reason for the Non Prosecution deal?

    A women journalist who has investigated Epstein for over a decade claimed Acosta was told to back off because Esptein was an intelligence asset. She highly credible.

    Acosta was asked this and he waffled and did not deny,he just siad don't go down rabbit holes.

    There plenty of rabbit holes to look into though. Where did he earn 500 million dollars, noboby seems to have an idea.

    Speculation is he was involved in major blackmailing scam, to intrap famous and world leaders. Again we see where it all leads eventually. Again i would hope they be no cover up, but if Epstein was running an intelligence operation for decades, some very important people will want to keep it secret and never come out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭Cheerful Spring2


    Trump and Esptein at a party in 1992. Trump invited him so he knew him.



    It not evidence Trump had underage sex with kids though. Women have made allegations against him though. One girl who was 13 ast the time said Trump demanded foreplay with her.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    A women journalist who has investigated Epstein for over a decade claimed Acosta was told to back off because Esptein was an intelligence asset. She highly credible.

    Acosta was asked this and he waffled and did not deny,he just siad don't go down rabbit holes.

    There plenty of rabbit holes to look into though. Where did he earn 500 million dollars, noboby seems to have an idea.

    Speculation is he was involved in major blackmailing scam, to intrap famous and world leaders. Again we see where it all leads eventually. Again i would hope they be no cover up, but if Epstein was running an intelligence operation for decades, some very important people will want to keep it secret and never come out.

    Yeah I would believe that Epstein was protected from on high by serious powers. If this were not true he would he arrested and in jail long ago. I would say once you had been on his plane and to his island you would be videoed and this would later be used to black mail you. He is the Jimmy Saville of the Americas.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,236 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    We know for a fact the children were 14/15. The authorities know this. We know for a fact he has previous for same with children. This isn't #ibelieveher he has a record. There are actual underage children being questioned.

    There were charges, guilty pleas, depositions, admissions and all sorts of stuff. I don't know how anyone can consider this a he-said/she-said situation.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,362 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    There were charges, guilty pleas, depositions, admissions and all sorts of stuff. I don't know how anyone can consider this a he-said/she-said situation.

    In fairness I think the poster was making the point that we don't know how old the girls were in the specific photos which were found.

    Though considering everything you mention above, I doubt the photos are just of some young pornstars. Nor do I understand why the poster's few examples of times detectives wrongly charged people when it turned out their pictures were just legal-age pornstars matter. Epstein is someone who has already admitted to and done plea deals regarding trafficking and procuring minors and subjecting them to sexual abuse. I don't think we need to consider giving Epstein the benefit of the doubt as to whether the girls in the photos might have been over the age of consent when they were taken. It's a pretty safe bet the billionaire paedophile Epstein wasn't just keeping his favourite issues of Playboy in his safe.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,172 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    A women journalist who has investigated Epstein for over a decade claimed Acosta was told to back off because Esptein was an intelligence asset. She highly credible.

    Acosta was asked this and he waffled and did not deny,he just siad don't go down rabbit holes.

    There plenty of rabbit holes to look into though. Where did he earn 500 million dollars, noboby seems to have an idea.

    Speculation is he was involved in major blackmailing scam, to intrap famous and world leaders. Again we see where it all leads eventually. Again i would hope they be no cover up, but if Epstein was running an intelligence operation for decades, some very important people will want to keep it secret and never come out.

    For which agency I wonder? Could get very interesting if what you say about entrapping world leaders is true. Either way this guys protection is obviously starting to wear off.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭Cheerful Spring2


    MadYaker wrote: »
    For which agency I wonder? Could get very interesting if what you say about entrapping world leaders is true. Either way this guys protection is obviously starting to wear off.

    It just rumor and speculation so don't take to the bank- Mossad. His passport with a fake name was got in Austria- but had a Saudi residence address.

    Supposedly not used in years.

    The allegation he was intelligence asset came from a credible source Vicky Ward. She heard from sources Acosta was told to back off. I can say for sure its true, but the allegation was made.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    Whats happening here now? Aren’t names supposed to be released soon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭Cheerful Spring2


    Whats happening here now? Aren’t names supposed to be released soon.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-21/epstein-saga-enters-new-phase-will-anyone-else-be-ensnared

    24th of July we hear something about this maybe.

    Ghislaine Maxwell was Esptein chief pimp, she recruited the girls. She also the daughter of Robert Maxwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell who was alleged to be a Mossad agent. Lots of links to the rich and famous,


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  • Registered Users Posts: 35,841 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-21/epstein-saga-enters-new-phase-will-anyone-else-be-ensnared

    24th of July we hear something about this maybe.

    Ghislaine Maxwell was Esptein chief pimp, she recruited the girls. She also the daughter of Robert Maxwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell who was alleged to be a Mossad agent. Lots of links to the rich and famous,


    Don't worry the puppet cough cough judge will inexplicably choose to not unseal them.

    Will you be shocked when that happens? Or do you expect it to........


    We all know he's so well protected, nothing to see here.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,056 ✭✭✭secondrowgal


    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-21/epstein-saga-enters-new-phase-will-anyone-else-be-ensnared

    24th of July we hear something about this maybe.

    Ghislaine Maxwell was Esptein chief pimp, she recruited the girls. She also the daughter of Robert Maxwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell who was alleged to be a Mossad agent. Lots of links to the rich and famous,

    "Maxwell, daughter of the late British publisher Robert Maxwell, asked on July 17 that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reconsider the unsealing order, saying the media’s “furious feeding frenzy” over Epstein justifies keeping the documents under wraps." hahahahahahahahaha - the irony!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭Cheerful Spring2


    "Maxwell, daughter of the late British publisher Robert Maxwell, asked on July 17 that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reconsider the unsealing order, saying the media’s “furious feeding frenzy” over Epstein justifies keeping the documents under wraps." hahahahahahahahaha - the irony!!!

    I know, it very unlikely she get her way. We see on 24th though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete




  • Registered Users Posts: 12,172 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    Yeah just read it on the guardian. No word from his lawyers or the police on his condition or even which hospital he was taken too. Very strange.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors



    Well ain't that strange. Who would have thought that such a pedophile with international political and corporate connections and a long blackmail list that goes back years who gets his money from nowhere... would be a suicide risk?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Sadly, I think Epstein will get off with a rather lenient sentence… another plea deal, perhaps The plea deal in 2008 makes prosecution problematic in federal court because of the Constitution’s rules of guarantee against double jeopardy. Democrats just want this to go away as they have no interest in exploring the behavior of their own party who are neck-deep in a pedophile’s activities. The best bet prosecutors would have for a successful prosecution is if they can find new offenses committed since the plea deal of 2008 was made.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,705 ✭✭✭Cheerful Spring2



    Details so far are sketchy. When reports broke sources said Epstein may have got assaulted in his cell. Different sources said he tried to commit suicide. I not jumping to conclusions yet someone tried to kill him. Still he should be watched 24 hours a day and this should never have happened. This guy needs to be brought to trial for his crimes and not get an easy way out by killing himself if this is what happened here?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Attempted arkancide more like…


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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,172 ✭✭✭✭MadYaker


    notobtuse wrote: »
    Sadly, I think Epstein will get off with a rather lenient sentence… another plea deal, perhaps The plea deal in 2008 makes prosecution problematic in federal court because of the Constitution’s rules of guarantee against double jeopardy. Democrats just want this to go away as they have no interest in exploring the behavior of their own party who are neck-deep in a pedophile’s activities. The best bet prosecutors would have for a successful prosecution is if they can find new offenses committed since the plea deal of 2008 was made.

    Do they care if Bill Clinton was involved? Who else from the democrat party was friends with Epstein? Clinton and Trump were the biggest names I heard.


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