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Jeffrey Epstein’s A-list pals rush to distance themselves
nyPOST ^ | 7/10/2019 | Bruce Golding

Posted on 07/10/2019 8:37:57 PM PDT by bitt

Jeffrey Epstein carefully cultivated a circle of prestigious and powerful friends by exploiting the aura of money and mystery that surrounded him — but the hint of a dark side was always there.

Now, in the wake of his blockbuster arrest on child sex trafficking charges, some of those high-flying former pals may be quaking in their boots.

During a news conference Monday announcing Epstein’s indictment, Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman dramatically pointed to the suspect’s mug shot on a poster, and the FBI’s New York chief, William Sweeney Jr., urged anyone who has been “victimized” or “has additional information” on the multimillionaire financier to immediately call the feds.

But the appeal was not just meant for victims of the convicted pedophile, former Justice Department prosecutor Bradley Simon said Tuesday. The underlying message, he said, is: Call us before we come a-calling on you.

“If there are people out there who facilitated or participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, they would probably be well-advised to seek counsel, and for their counsel to make overtures to the US attorney,” said Simon, now co-chair of the white-collar criminal defense practice at Phillips Nizer.

“Earlier is better than later in these types of cases.”

Epstein, 66, rose from middle-class origins in Coney Island to amass a fortune that includes a $77 million Upper East Side townhouse, a $12 million estate in Palm Beach, Fla., a 7,500-acre ranch in New Mexico and a private island — called “Little St. James” — in the US Virgin Islands, which he claims as his primary residence.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
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To: bitt; Yaelle
"Jeffrey Epstein carefully cultivated a circle of prestigious and powerful friends by exploiting the aura of money and mystery that surrounded him"

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For sure. How else could he get George to pose like this?


61 posted on 07/11/2019 5:33:28 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: Yaelle

That’s my take on Patterson, too. He’s always been creepy. My thumb automatically hits the channel changer when his commercials air.

I about barfed when he and Clinton coauthored a book. As if Clinton really authored it but whatever. But interesting that Epstein, Clinton and Peterson are connected.


62 posted on 07/11/2019 5:39:42 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Yaelle

Patterson = Peterson


63 posted on 07/11/2019 5:40:11 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Artcore

Think about Frank Pentangeli.


64 posted on 07/11/2019 5:42:01 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: wjcsux

My bet is all the stress will bring on a well timed heart attack before Labor Day.


65 posted on 07/11/2019 5:46:25 AM PDT by bgill
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To: gaijin

He did an interview with Dana Perino on Fox. She asked him if Clinton, and others knew what was going on with Epstein. He emphatically, said, NO, how would they! It wasn’t two questions later when he said (Paraphrased) he had been at Mar-A-lago and asked The SPA MANAGER who worked there if she knew Epstein and had he been around a lot. She responded, Yes, he comes here quite a bit but he has. A problem with young girls, so the spa manager knew but not Bill Clinton????? Perino challenged him with that but he got scrambled.


66 posted on 07/11/2019 5:48:13 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: bigbob

Probably also trolling to try to find some who will implicate Trump...they need Mueller to help....


67 posted on 07/11/2019 6:04:51 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: JustaCowgirl

Remember the stuff they took from his safe? Likely videos, etc...well there’s probably copies of those with someone else and orders to release them if ANYTHING happens to him.


68 posted on 07/11/2019 6:54:39 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: napscoordinator

Dershowitz said he kept his underwear on at all times during the massages. Yieks!!! The super rich are just weird.


Yeah my wife would certainly believe that one.


69 posted on 07/11/2019 7:00:28 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: BigEdLB

de niro couldn’t wear his elevator shoes in the gray bar hotel


70 posted on 07/11/2019 7:29:00 AM PDT by rolling_stone (Hang em slowly don't boil the rope make it a little short...)
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To: neodad

Even before the recent attention to the Epstein case, my experience that it only took a couple hours of reading articles published in mainstream periodicals and primary documents to conclude that the Epstein case was more decadent and more widespread among the highest levels of the ruling elite than anything even Alex Jones could imagine.

To anybody with a memory and an interest in current events, but not possessed by religious faith in some political ideology or party, Pizza Gate was a plausible interpretation of the weirdly coded language of some of the Podesta e-mails. Sure, it was an absurd theory: but it was no more absurd than what was already known at the time and undisputed about politicians like Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Dennis Hastert, Bob Packwood, and Larry Craig. (Note that the list includes both parties.) Recall also that the undisputed elements of the extremely weird case history of Anthony Weiner had recently reset the upper end of the Richter scale of political decadence and absurdity.

Who are these people?


71 posted on 07/11/2019 7:38:11 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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To: GOPJ
The best deals go to those who come in early... if you've got the goods on Clinton now's your time...

You should also have state-of-the-art plastic surgery to render yourself unrecognizable, change your name, and be relocated to Mongolia after giving your information to the feds. You can never be too safe.
72 posted on 07/11/2019 7:41:32 AM PDT by Deo volente ("Paging Mr. Charles Martel. Please pick up the white courtesy phone.")
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To: TigerClaws
It was a honeypot operation. https://observer.com/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-spy-intelligence-work/

I'd be real careful taking anything notorious #nevertrumper John Schindler has to say say face value.

73 posted on 07/11/2019 8:10:27 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: bitt

Some of us have been screaming for a while that there are a lot of elite pedophiles in power and were laughed at. Looks like we’re going to be serving crow stew soon.


74 posted on 07/11/2019 8:16:21 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: Deo volente
You should also have state-of-the-art plastic surgery to render yourself unrecognizable, change your name, and be relocated to Mongolia after giving your information to the feds. You can never be too safe.

Ummmm, the FBI PROTECTS the Clintons... The press protects the Clintons, Intelligence thugs protect the Clintons...

BUT if enough people come forward those who have been protecting the Clintons will lose power, and lose power, and lose power... And when that happens there will be a flash - and it'll be over in a blink of an eye.

75 posted on 07/11/2019 8:25:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (Main reason black citizens have less 'wealth' is because money burns a hole in their pockets.)
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To: The Right Stuff

Yep... long ago.


76 posted on 07/11/2019 8:29:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (Main reason black citizens have less 'wealth' is because money burns a hole in their pockets.)
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To: DarthVader

Good to know. Thank you!


77 posted on 07/11/2019 9:07:58 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Gene Eric

Anytime!! :-)


78 posted on 07/11/2019 9:31:08 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: bgill

Right? So Patterson is cool with slipping dirty money to the Clintons. At the very least. Says a lot about him.


79 posted on 07/11/2019 11:23:21 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: bitt

From another article:
After 13 months of this, there was another year of house arrest in which Epstein was able to fly his jet around the country and around the world. Before long, he was partying with the smart set, including Charlie Rose, Katie Couric, Woody Allen and Chelsea Handler.


You know the ones that scold all of us.


80 posted on 07/11/2019 2:56:45 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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