Posted on 08/16/2023 5:17:41 PM PDT by george76
Newly filed court documents show that the Virgin Islands Attorney General investigating Epstein faced political pressure to give the pedophile a special waiver.
Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George vigorously prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein-related cases until she was unexpectedly fired by V.I. Governor Albert Bryan Jr. last December.
The sudden dismissal sent shockwaves throughout the islands and made international headlines, with many speculating that Bryan’s decision was shaped by her legal pursuit of Epstein’s allies. Just a month before her surprise ouster, George had won a $105 million settlement against Epstein’s estate and filed an additional case against Epstein’s alleged allies on Wall Street.
But it wasn’t the first time Bryan may have leaned on George on behalf of the convicted pedophile.
In July, George testified under oath that Bryan had personally lobbied her in 2019 to issue a special waiver to the territory’s sex offender law so that Epstein could travel freely, without special notifications or restrictions.
The demand shocked her, as Epstein was well-known at the time as a convicted sex offender who had reportedly abused dozens of young women and girls, with many victims exploited in the Virgin Islands.
“Just the fact that he as a sex offender got the governor to come to me for that request,” said George, that was “unusual.”
The former attorney general added that Epstein appeared to be “flexing his political influence over or with the governor in an effort to get a favorable result in what I considered to be definitely a law enforcement issue.”
George said that Bryan repeatedly pressured her to issue the sex offender travel waiver to Epstein. Asked if she found the outreach to be “improper,” she responded, “I do.”
George also noted that she later heard from Epstein’s attorney and tax specialist, Erika Kellerhals, who also lobbied for the special waiver. As I reported last month, Kellerhals previously employed Del. Stacey Plaskett, D-V.I., a firebrand House Democrat who misled reporters about her extensive ties to the convicted pedophile.
Unlike her predecessors, George denied the waiver.
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The former prosecutor’s remarks were made during depositions recorded in July, in a civil case she originally filed against J.P. Morgan Chase last year. The Virgin Islands has claimed that the bank knowingly facilitated Epstein’s criminal enterprise. In response, the bank has charged that the Virgin Islands government was similarly complicit in Epstein’s extensive criminal history.
The disclosure of the deposition, first reported here, was made on Monday in federal court, as both parties have continued to press their case.
In a second deposition filed with the court, also taken in July, George said that when she was appointed to office, she had read about the nickname for Epstein’s private island, “Pedophile Island,” where “horrendous things,” like “sex trafficking,” were happening. She said it was “mind-boggling” that it appeared that no local authorities were probing the ongoing problem.
The latest filings add new details to the claims that Epstein used his extensive political sway in the Virgin Islands to rewrite the territory’s sex offender law. In 2011, the Virgin Islands moved to update its sex offender registry law to comply with federal standards. The proposed reforms alarmed Epstein, who had been convicted of child prostitution charges in 2008, making him a registered sex offender who would be impacted by the proposed bill.
Epstein and his close circle of lobbyists and aides closely followed the legislation and worked to weaken it.
“This is the suggested language; will it work for you?” asked Cecile de Jongh, then the first lady of the Virgin Islands who simultaneously worked as an advisor to Epstein. She kept close tabs on the legislation and helped coordinate high-level meetings to influence its outcome.
Epstein, the emails show, pushed for changes to the bill, and was personally involved with the negotiations with a key lawmaker advancing the legislation, Senator Ronald Russell.
Maria Hodge, an attorney working for Epstein, even drafted Epstein’s chosen amendment language and sent it to a legislative attorney. Hodge, writing in a June 2012 email, noted that she attached “my notes on the amendments to the bill I understand Senator Russell has agreed to support.”
The proposed Epstein amendments to the legislation, Hodge added, were sent via Microsoft Word format, to “make it easier to copy and paste if you wish.”
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The legislation was passed with many of the Epstein attorney's proposed amendments taken word-for-word and implemented into law. The changes gave the Virgin Islands Attorney General the power to provide a waiver to the sex offender registry, exempting Tier 1 sex offenders such as Epstein from the 21-day travel notifications and information about with whom he was traveling.
Well, son of a gun.......
I’m just amazed by the reach of this guy, even from beyond the grave.
I guess it is not really him, but the compromised elites he had dirt on.
Biden’s visit to the Virgin Islands overlaps the firing of top prosecutor looking into Epstein’s business partners..
The political cabal has sent off a new warning shot, this time aimed towards Denise George, the Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands until just a few days ago, when she was promptly fired by the territory’s governor. What was her offense? Vowing to bring justice to those involved in Jeffrey Epstein’s web of pedophilia and human trafficking.
... days since Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of sex-trafficking minors to apparently nobody. How can one be guilty of sex-trafficking if there are no buyers? Where’s the dang list?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4120633/posts
(Where’s the dang list?)
To protect the list, even Prince Andrew, the cameras “malfunctioned” and the security guards “fell asleep”.
You can bet they were protecting Bill Clinton and a whole host of others.
TPTB have to maintain blackmail control over their selected politicians.
If Jeffrey Epstein talked it could have brought down the British monarchy and even the Clintons. There was no way they were going to let that happen.
Such is exactly why I said years ago, they were not going to let him live to trial and put anything on record
Only one of those women has even mentioned Pedo Island.
That is the woman who says she had sex, one time, with Prince Andrew, on Pedo Island. Prince Andrew denies that happened.
That is 100% of the public evidence for underage sex on Pedo Island.
There was a thread on them but don’t know at the moment
“No one in particular” strikes back...
This thought now crosses my mind.
I really don’t care about the rantings of the crazed ‘trans’ person who murdered those poor children and others at the Presbyterian school.
But I would VERY MUCH like to peruse the Epstein client list. Never really thought about it until now, but this man was the big fat spider in a web of complete corruption. And for years, and years, he had “allies” at the highest levels.
Why did he? WHO, exactly, was Ghislaine trafficking child prostitutes to?
I kind of feel dumb for even feeling this way. Just never got caught up in the Epstein story. But then you know, there was the non-suicide. ETC.
There is no need to wonder who Epstein’s clients were they were EVERY stinking politician on BOTH SIDES of the isle!! My gut tells me that Epstein was an intel asset to gain control of EVERY STINKING elected official and judge on the bench!!
If you kick over a rock in DC you will uncover a prevert.
Seems to be. I mean, Prince Andrew! Or whoever. I mean, come on man! As JB the white house occupier would say!
Seems to be. I mean, Prince Andrew! Or whoever. I mean, come on man! As JB the white house occupier would say!
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