Posted on 07/09/2019 12:44:05 PM PDT by Red Badger
Alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein will agree to give up names of individuals who took part in the trafficking ring he ran—in exchange for a substantially lower sentence.
A two-count indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors on July 8 charged the 66-year-old billionaire financier with sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Epstein allegedly sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations.
The charges carry with them a maximum sentence of 45 years in jail. At Epstein’s age, the charges are tantamount to “a life sentence” Geoffrey Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said at a press conference.
Details of the offer were first reported by broadcast channel One America News Network (OANN).
“Epstein’s lawyer has already made a proffer to SDNY,” OANN host Jack Posobiec said in a July 8 Twitter post.
“Epstein will agree to cooperate with the investigation, including giving up the names of individuals that paid for activities with underage girls in exchange for a maximum sentence not to exceed 5 years,” he continued.
SCOOP: Epstein’s lawyer has already made a proffer to SDNY. Epstein will agree to cooperate with the investigation, including giving up the names of individuals that paid for activities with underage girls in exchange for a maximum sentence not to exceed 5 years – @OANN
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 8, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: Epstein Lawyers Extend Plea Agreement Offer in Exchange for Five-Year-Sentence – @OANN pic.twitter.com/3NROGtBH5d
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 8, 2019
The 14-page unsealed indictment didn’t name any of the “employees and associates” who facilitated Epstein’s conduct by contacting and scheduling the victim’s sexual encounters with him.
Between 2002 and 2005, Epstein “enticed and recruited” minor girls in New York and Florida to engage in sex acts, after which he would pay the victims hundreds of dollars in cash, court records stated.
Epstein has connections to numerous high-profile people, including former President Bill Clinton, the UK’s Prince Andrew, actor Kevin Spacey, and director Woody Allen. Clinton flew on Epstein’s jet, infamously dubbed the “Lolita Express,” at least 26 times, according to records obtained by Fox News in 2016.
A July 8 statement from Clinton’s press secretary, Angel Ureña, said Clinton only “took a total of four trips” on the jet. The statement also said Clinton “knows nothing about the terrible crimes” Epstein allegedly committed and that he had “not spoken to Epstein in well over a decade.”
At an appearance in a Manhattan federal court on July 8, Epstein pleaded not guilty to the charges. A federal judge ordered him to remain in jail until a subsequent bail hearing scheduled for July 11.
At the press conference, Berman confirmed previous reports that said Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on July 6, after his private plane had landed from France.
Berman also said his office wasn’t bound by the previous plea deal in which Epstein was sentenced to 13 months in prison in 2008; he said that deal only binds the Southern District of Florida. The previous deal is currently being challenged in a Florida federal court.
Bill Sweeney, assistant director-in-charge of the FBI’s New York field office, said at the press conference that children who are victims are still traumatized by abuse long after it occurs.
“I stand among many who make it our mission to put predators behind bars where they belong. Regardless of the predator’s power, wealth, or perceived connections,” Sweeney said.
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I wonder if the SDNY has locked Epstein away just to make damn sure he has no access to anyone else, and nobody else has access to him....
Arkincide in 3... 2...
I’m sure the victims just love that idea </sarcasm>
And if Epstein was in fact running a honey trap, we’re talking a lot more than sex trafficking.
Yes...................
“cooperate with the investigation, including giving up the names of individuals that paid for activities”
So... all of those that did not PAY will be kept secret?
I doubt that the big names like BJ Clinton and that level of perv PAID anything.
Some will................
They have all the evidence and don’t need a plea deal.
It will be a redacted list based on payment.
Everybody ‘pays’ one way or another................
Payment is the least of it.
If these people were later blackmailed and acceded to the blackmail, we could have an almighty national security problem.
Depends on the bargaining ability of the SDNY Prosecutors vs Epstein Lawyers.....................Hope they’ve read ‘Art of the Deal’...................
Wholesale...................
Anyone who is found out later and convicted without Epstein naming them doesn't count.
I wouldn't make any deals contingent on only naming of names. I'd make it contingent on obtaining guilty verdicts against those named. Otherwise, Epstein has the political power to target his enemies by simply naming them.Let his sentence be reduced by, say, six months for each conviction of a named person.
Anyone whom Epstein names who can prove their innocence adds a year to Epstein's sentence.
-PJ
“”individuals that paid””
Yep, the Clinton’s don’t pay for ANYTHING so same old same old....
I would think so. Deal may not happen at all..................
He’s in the Southern District of NY. The Rats can rest easy.
Epstein was paying THEM with those kids.
NO DEALS!
That’s what I’m afraid of.
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