Posted on 11/21/2017 7:04:02 AM PST by COUNTrecount
A trial that promises to offer the first public airing of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s activities with teenage girls at his Palm Beach mansion is to be held in December, a Palm Beach County circuit judge agreed Thursday.
The malicious prosecution lawsuit that attorney Bradley Edwards filed against the Palm Beach billionaire has been on hold for years while various appeals were filed. With the issues resolved by the Florida Supreme Court last month, Circuit Judge Donald Hafele said the jury trial should begin Dec. 5.
While attorney Jack Scarola, who represents Edwards, had put President Donald Trump on the witness list, he has said he won’t need Epstein’s fellow part-time Palm Beacher to prove his case. The legal hurdles he would face to try to force a sitting president to take the witness stand are unnecessary, he said.
“We can prove our case without Donald Trump’s testimony,” Scarola said in May.
Scarola claims Epstein sued Edwards in 2009 to punish him for representing roughly a half-dozen women against Epstein. The women claimed Epstein paid them for sexually charged massages at his mansion when some were as young as 14. Epstein eventually dropped his lawsuit against Edwards, but the state Supreme Court recently ruled Edwards could still pursue the 64-year-old politically connected money manager for malicious prosecution.
As part of a plea deal in 2008, Epstein settled the lawsuits that more than two dozen young women, including Edwards’ clients, had filed against him. The settlement agreements were confidential.
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That deal is the subject of a separate lawsuit now pending against the U.S. government in federal court.
President Trump was the only one that already answered all the questions and was found not to be involved in this in any way. Epstein just hung out at Mar-a-logo with everyone else.
Bill Clinton….still needs to answer.
Isn’t this the guy that otganized the visits to Orgy Island for Bill and others?
Yes
I wonder how many people wish that this trial had gone to court during the Obama administration....or at least a few months ago.
“...Bill Clinton….still needs to answer....”
Clinton’s involvement with these fellow perverts and reprobates is known, for the most part. Another one of those fly-on-the-wall situations.....the Clintons continue to skate.
He will never make trial. Clintonitis will take him to room temperature first.
He will never make trial. Clintonitis will take him to room temperature first.
Wonder how many times Bubba Clinton’s name will be brought up. Could get interesting.....
"Why, I flown with Mr. Epstein over a dozen times on his Lolita Expr... er I mean private jet, and stayed on his private island many times. Why, Mr. Epstein is as fine a moral upstanding man as I am."
Kevin.
Discovery in this case could be very juicy, and might include some information on Epstein’s friends.
“Bill Clinton….still needs to answer.”
This ^^^^^
Slick Willy will end up very sick and confined to a health villa on a non-extraditing island. Hiltlery will be the same, but on a different island. Chelsea is a different matter, the pitiful girl.
Perhaps justice will prevail and one day this scum will be forced to prostitute himself in jail for his life and freedom.
As the young girls were forced to by him and his traffickers
Don’t get your hopes up, this is a “malicious prosecution lawsuit”, not a sex trial.
The first thing the Clinton/Obama appointed judge will say is: Procedural testimony only, no reference to other trials or events will be allowed.
Nothing to see here.
Jeffrey Epstein will call on Bill Clinton as a character witness.......
I did not see this story in today's printed Palm Beach Post that was delivered here this morning. (But they did dedicate a full page to the supposed damage Trump was causing for locals by coming in for Thanksgiving.)
ML/NJ
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