Posted on 09/24/2023 12:33:52 PM PDT by Libloather
For two decades, the U.S. Virgin Islands’ most prominent government and elected officials - as well as their pet charities, educational institutions and causes - were paid millions of dollars by Jeffrey Epstein in the form of salaries, campaign contributions and consultant fees.
His most trusted employee was the U.S. territory’s first lady.
At the same time, USVI authorities paid little mind to the young women and girls he shuttled through the St. Thomas airport following his 2008 Palm Beach conviction for soliciting a minor for sex. Epstein’s abuse of underage girls became so well publicized that his hideaway, an oasis built on a bluff overlooking the Caribbean, became known as Pedophile Island. For years, it was suspected that Epstein’s palatial compound on his private island was being used as a place for wealthy and powerful people to commit sex crimes.
Now, the same USVI government that turned a blind eye to Epstein’s crimes is filing lawsuits and reaping tens of millions of dollars from companies and individuals it claims enabled the serial sex trafficker. Epstein, a New York financier whose friends included leaders in the worlds of finance, government and science, died in a New York prison cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges. His death was ruled a suicide by hanging.
In the years since Epstein’s death, a litany of federal lawsuits have been filed, targeting individuals, banks and business executives in Epstein’s circle who have been accused of facilitating or being complicit in his sex-trafficking operation. At least 200 victims have said he and his associates sexually abused them as girls or young women over two decades.
As a result, about $500 million in legal settlements have been paid to Epstein’s survivors, most of that from Epstein’s estate - and from JPMorgan and Deutsche...
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When it comes to government they get you comin’ and goin’.
And, it would seem, that Jeffrey Epstein had an interest in supporting the Representative from the Virgin Islands, Democrat Stacey Plaskett.
they didn’t care because the victims were white
LOL. Whoops. Should have read the whole article first!
U.S. Virgin Islands. How appropriate to use for whore sex.
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