Jeffrey Epstein Arrested for Child Sex Trafficking

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Well, it just wouldn't be normal if this below didn't happen!

Epstein accused of witness tampering in sex trafficking case.

'Prosecutors have accused jailed US financier Jeffrey Epstein of paying large amounts of money to two people who
could be potential witnesses in his child sex trafficking case in an effort to influence them.
Prosecutors said Epstein sent a total of $350,000 (£278,000) to two suspected co-conspirators late last year.



The allegations were made in a court filing asking that Epstein be denied bail while he awaits trial.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty. He is due in court on Monday for a hearing to consider his request for bail.
His lawyers have not yet commented on the payout claims.

In the filing, prosecutors said the 66-year-old made the payments late last year, just days after The Miami Herald began
publishing articles about a plea deal Epstein reached to avoid federal sex trafficking charges in 2008.
He paid one person named as a possible co-conspirator in the case $100,000 and the other suspected co-conspirator
$250,000, the prosecutors allege. They did not name the two people who received the money.

"Neither of these payments appears to be recurring or repeating during the approximately five years of bank records
presently available to the government," they said. "This course of action, and in particular its timing, suggests the defendant
was attempting to further influence co-conspirators who might provide information against him in light of the recently
re-emerging allegations."

Epstein was arrested on 6 July and has been charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy.
According to an indictment, the wealthy financier paid girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and
Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.

He has asked to be allowed to await trial under house arrest, but prosecutors argued in the court filing on Friday that he
should be kept behind bars. They cited his payments to possible witnesses and the risk that he would flee as reasons to
keep him in jail, while describing him as "unrepentant and unreformed".

The prosecutors' filing came as US Labour Secretary Alex Acosta announced that he was resigning amid criticism of his
role in the 2008 plea deal.

Why did Mr Acosta step down?
In the previous case against him, Epstein was accused of abusing dozens of teenage girls between 1999 and 2007.

Mr Acosta was then the US Attorney in Miami and oversaw the non-prosecution deal with Epstein, which allowed the financier
to serve 13 months in jail - with much of that time spent on work release at his Palm Beach office.
The deal has come under increasing scrutiny with the new charges against Epstein this week.

US President Donald Trump told reporters that he and Mr Acosta spoke on the phone earlier on Friday and that it was Mr Acosta's
decision to step down. Mr Acosta told reporters: "I do not think it is right and fair... to have Epstein as the focus rather than the
incredible economy that we have today."
But he added: "It would be selfish for me to stay in this position and continue talking about a case that's 12 years old."

Patrick Pizzella, the current labour deputy secretary, will become acting secretary when Mr Acosta officially steps down in one
week, Mr Trump said...'

BBC:

'Pizzella'...? Really?!!

The rest of the article is about connecting Trump to Epstein -of course, because... well because BBC.
No mention of Cocaine-Bill!
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Meanwhile, CNBC report:

Jeffrey Epstein jail logs: Accused child sex predator met with Alan Dershowitz, Bill Clinton friend,
alleged co-conspirators a decade ago.

*Wealthy financier and accused child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein had a cast of characters meet
with him while he was in jail in 2008 and 2009.

*They included the likes of his appeals attorney Alan Dershowitz and Arnold Paul Prosperi, a college
friend to former President Bill Clinton, the documents show.

*Other notable attendees were two of Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators, Nadia Marcinkova and Sarah
Kellen. Combined, the two made over 70 visits to the Palm Beach County Jail.


Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a
photograph of a pervert.

'Wealthy financier and accused child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein had a revolving cast of characters take turns
visiting him in a Palm Beach County, Florida, jail while serving a 13-month criminal sentence in 2008 and 2009,
according to visitor logs reviewed by CNBC on Friday.

Those visitors included Epstein’s appeals attorney Alan Dershowitz, who showed up on New Year’s Day 2009,
as well as Arnold Paul Prosperi, a college friend of former President Bill Clinton, documents show.
Other visitors were two woman who have been alleged to have been co-conspirators of Epstein.

Epstein, also a former friend of President Donald Trump’s, pleaded guilty in 2008 to a Florida state charge of
procuring an underage prostitute. He now is charged by federal prosecutors in New York with sexually abusing
dozens of underage girls from 2002 through 2005 at his Manhattan townhouse and Palm Beach mansion.

Among his most frequent visitors in jail was Prosperi, who had become friends with Clinton when they attended
Georgetown University together, where he ran Clinton’s campaign for student body president.
Records show that Prosperi visited Epstein at least 20 times.

An attorney who later raised funds for Clinton, Prosperi had his own criminal sentence for filing false tax returns
commuted to house arrest on Clinton’s last day office in the White House in 2001. A 1995 newspaper clipping
uncovered by Snopes.com describes a dinner hosted by Revlon chief Ron Perelman and his wife, with guests
including Clinton, who was president at the time, Prosperi and Epstein.

Other guests at that dinner included actor Don Johnson, singer Jimmy Buffett and Don Fowler, the then-co-chairman
of the Democratic National Committee. Clinton’s spokesman has said that he cut ties with Epstein over a decade ago,
and has no knowledge of Epstein’s alleged crimes. On Friday, a representative for Clinton did not return CNBC’s
request for comment.

Dershowitz spent much of the morning on January 1, 2009, with Epstein, according to records.
In a statement to CNBC, Dershowitz said, “I always visit clients in prison. We discuss legal issues.
It was not a personal visit. It was professional.”

Later that same holiday, Prosperi came by to see Epstein, as did Joseph Pagano, who has the same name as a venture
capitalist previously reported to be a friend of Epstein. CNBC was unable to reach Pagano.
Other notable visitors were two of Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators, Nadia Marcinkova and Sarah Kellen.
Combined, the two made over 70 visits to the Palm Beach County Jail, records show.

Kellen, according to a court document obtained by The Daily Beast, was one of Epstein’s closest aides in the 2000s.
She now goes by the name Sarah Kensington and is married to NASCAR driver Brian Vickers. Marcinkova is now a
certified FAA pilot and a flight instructor.

Neither Kellen nor Marcinkova has been criminally charged. A non-prosecution agreement that Epstein signed with federal
prosecutors in Miami in 2007, explicitly said that his alleged co-conspirators would not be criminally charged.

Alex Acosta, who was U.S. attorney in Miami at the time, oversaw the deal. On Friday, Acosta resigned as Trump’s Labor
secretary amid criticism of his handling of the Epstein case more than a decade ago.
Igor Zinoviev, a Russian who is a former martial artist, also made his way to Epstein’s jail cell.

No one visited Epstein more than Story Cowles, who was reportedly his personal assistant. Cowles visited Epstein nearly
130 times. At times, Cowles signed in as a paralegal. His online profile says that he is currently an investment banker at
Tobin & Co.

Epstein finished his 13 month stint in jail with at least 340 visits from a mix of about two dozens friends, colleagues and
attorneys, among other associates, the documents show. Two process servers also visited Epstein, as did a psychiatric
doctor. An attorney for Epstein did not return a request for comment.

Dershowitz and Cowles did not return requests for comment while the other visitors could not be reached.
Prosperi died in 2016.

Epstein was arrested last Saturday on the new federal charges filed in New York. He is being held without bail, but is due to
appear at a detention hearing on Monday. Prosecutors in a court filing on Friday said he is worth more than $500 million, and
in recent months has made payments to potential witnesses.

Epstein, who ran his firm out of the U.S. Virgin Islands, historically has had ties to a few wealthy executives and politicians.
Les Wexner, the chairman of L Brands, was known to be one his clients before he first was sentenced a decade ago.
CNBC recently uncovered 990 tax documents showing Epstein bankrolled one of Wexner’s earliest nonprofit organizations.

He also was a top donor to Rep. Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands, and she recently reversed course to give his contributions
away to charity after outrage on social media...'