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How is this guy still alive?

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aggiehawg said:

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Read that. But so far they weren't underage. No actual "new crime" other than the Sheriff's department allowing that crap to happen under their noses.

I think we both can agree on one thing, Epstein is a sicko but was given extraordinary special treatment because of his perceived wealth.

That's just wrong.

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Roberts' story about the modeling agency is supported, to a degree, by the sworn statement of a Miami woman named Maritza Vasquez, who was later interviewed in New York by an FBI agent from Miami. Vasquez worked as a bookkeeper for Mc2, owned by Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel. He employed scouts in South America, Europe and the former Soviet Union to find him models to bring to the United States, Vasquez said in a 2010 sworn court deposition obtained by the Herald.


Vasquez stated in the deposition that from 2003 to 2006 she handled all the finances and payroll for the agency, including a bank transaction involving Epstein. She said Epstein invested $1 million in Mc2.

The models were often very young 13, 14 and 15 and some of them were housed in apartments at 301 E. 66th St. in New York, a building purportedly owned by Epstein, the deposition said.

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aggiehawg said:

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Read that. But so far they weren't underage. No actual "new crime" other than the Sheriff's department allowing that crap to happen under their noses.

I think we both can agree on one thing, Epstein is a sicko but was given extraordinary special treatment because of his perceived wealth.

That's just wrong.

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aggiehawg said:

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Roberts' story about the modeling agency is supported, to a degree, by the sworn statement of a Miami woman named Maritza Vasquez, who was later interviewed in New York by an FBI agent from Miami. Vasquez worked as a bookkeeper for Mc2, owned by Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel. He employed scouts in South America, Europe and the former Soviet Union to find him models to bring to the United States, Vasquez said in a 2010 sworn court deposition obtained by the Herald.


Vasquez stated in the deposition that from 2003 to 2006 she handled all the finances and payroll for the agency, including a bank transaction involving Epstein. She said Epstein invested $1 million in Mc2.

The models were often very young 13, 14 and 15 and some of them were housed in apartments at 301 E. 66th St. in New York, a building purportedly owned by Epstein, the deposition said.

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Vasquez stated in the deposition that from 2003 to 2006 she handled all the finances and payroll for the agency, including a bank transaction involving Epstein. She said Epstein invested $1 million in Mc2.

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aggiehawg said:

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Vasquez stated in the deposition that from 2003 to 2006 she handled all the finances and payroll for the agency, including a bank transaction involving Epstein. She said Epstein invested $1 million in Mc2.

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You missed something. The deposition happened in 2010 in a civil suit but the conduct was pre-plea deal.

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riverrataggie said:

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How is this guy still alive?

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Dead man switch with a bunch of blackmail material

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TAMUallen said:

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captkirk said:

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riverrataggie said:

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How is this guy still alive?

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Dead man switch with a bunch of blackmail material

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There's a reason he's in a cell a few doors down from el chapo. If chapo cant bust out, bribe or threaten in jail then that means the cabal will have an equally difficult time (right now at least)

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• In photos obtained by DailyMail.com, Ehud Barak is seen hiding his face as he entered Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion in January 2016
• The 77-year-old, Israel's former prime minister, has long had business ties to Epstein, which current PM Benjamin Netanyahu's team is now trying to exploit
• Barak was wearing a camo-style neck gaiter which he pulled high over his face almost to his glasses and later, he was wearing it as a hat
• Barak admitted the photos are of him, blaming his bizarre attire on being cold, but claims he has 'never met Epstein in the company of women or young girls'
• However, a bevy of young women were also seen going into the multi-millionaire's lavish home on the same day that married Barak was snapped
• Epstein, 66, was arrested last week and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to traffic minors for sex

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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-case-grows-more-grotesque

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Former prime minister Ehud Barak went on the offensive Wednesday evening, dismissing as a "blood libel" a British tabloid insinuating that he met women at alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's residence.

Speaking in front of hundreds of supporters at a campaign launch event in Tel Aviv for his new Israel Democratic Party, Barak asserted that the report in the Daily Mail was a result of the "poisoned atmosphere" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fostered over the past two decades.

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Barak, who entered a business deal with Epstein in 2015, years after the American financier served time for solicitation, called long-rumored allegations of sex trafficking by Epstein "abhorrent" and announced that he had officially cut off all business ties with him.

"I thought Epstein was a one-time stumble. When it turned out differently, I drew conclusions and cut off any contact with him," Barak said.

Earlier Wednesday, Barak issued an ultimatum to the Daily Mail tabloid to remove the article insinuating that he had been present at one of Jeffrey Epstein's homes when he was having women over. As of 10:00 p.m. the article remained on the newspaper's website, three hours past the deadline.

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As the Jeffrey Epstein case continues to unfold, a laundry list of celebrities, business magnates and socialites who have flown anywhere near the registered sex offender's orbit are now tainted with pedo-polonium. Many of them, such as Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, and Victoria's Secret boss Les Wexner have sought to distance themselves from Epstein and his activities - however their attempts have fallen on deaf ears considering their extensive ties to the pedophile.

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aggiehawg said:

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Sounds to me like Judge Berman is not too troubled by the double jeopardy argument...yet.

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biobioprof said:

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aggiehawg said:

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Sounds to me like Judge Berman is not too troubled by the double jeopardy argument...yet.

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I was under the impression from the legal twitterverse that double jeopardy only applied to crimes that were actually prosecuted. And there was the recent SCOTUS case about how Fed and State charges for the same crime did not constitute double jeopardy. That was where Gorsuch joined the libs in dissent, IIRC.

But it will be interesting to see what Berman said given this:

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Two issues: 1) If he was missing sex offender check-ins, that might constitute non-compliance with terms of his plea agreement, and thus revocation/vitiation of the agreement itself; and 2) The plea agreement likely only included conduct that occurred within the Southern District of Florida. Berman might be thinking double jeopardy does not apply to conduct and charges originating in New York.

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