Epstein arrested?

As are videotapes.(!)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9270769/Ghislaine-Maxwell-admitted-Jeffrey-Epstein-DID-tapes-Donald-Trump-Clintons-2016.html

In the "no shit Sherlock" news, Ghislaine Maxwell was charged with sex trafficking today.

This thing reaches all the way to the royal family and I guess Epstein's "suicide" in prison isn't going to stop it. By the time this train pulls into the station, there'll be bodies all over the tracks.

The noose is tightening.

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Spokespeople for Andrew and Buckingham Palace have repeatedly denied any and all allegations over the years. During a 2019 interview with BBC’s “Newsnight” concerning the royal’s ties to Epstein, Andrew again denied the accusations and said that he has “no recollection” of even meeting Giuffre.

The noose is finally fitted around Ghislaine Maxwell's neck too. If there are any disclosures during the trial of Epstein's client list this could get interesting.

A whole lot of billionaires and Congressmen are sobbing "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit" into their hands right now.

NoCoPilot wrote:

This thing reaches all the way to the royal family and I guess Epstein's "suicide" in prison isn't going to stop it.  

Yeppers. In one short week December 22 the proverbial effluent will hit the air recirculator.

Granted the girls, some of them, were underage.  Granted Ghislaine and Jeffrey recruited them for sex, and flew them all over the country (across state lines) and to his private island.

Those are illegal acts.

But I read one of the girls serviced Epstein more than 100 times.  Most of them serviced him numerous times.  They were well paid.  They were willing.

It weren't rape.

If you ask me, the real story here -- and maybe it'll come out, now that the case is over -- is not the Epstein-Maxwell locus.

It's their client list. Who ELSE were they supplying?

And is there a statute of limitations for Alex Acosta and Alan Dershowitz?

Wikipedia wrote:

Non-prosecution agreement (NPA) (2006–2008)

In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein, nicknamed "Operation Leap Year".[110] It resulted in a 53-page indictment in June 2007.[69] Alexander Acosta, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, agreed to a plea deal, which Alan Dershowitz helped to negotiate,[111] to grant immunity from all federal criminal charges to Epstein, along with four named co-conspirators and any unnamed "potential co-conspirators". According to the Miami Herald, the non-prosecution agreement "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein's sex crimes". At the time, this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. The Miami Herald said: "Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims."[1]

Acosta later said he offered a lenient plea deal because he was told that Epstein "belonged to intelligence", was "above his pay grade" and to "leave it alone".[52][53][112] Epstein agreed to plead guilty in Florida state court to two felony prostitution charges, serve 18 months in prison, register as a sex offender, and pay restitution to three dozen victims identified by the FBI.[1][89] The plea deal was later described as a "sweetheart deal".[113]

A federal judge later found that the prosecutors had violated the victims' rights in that they had concealed the agreement from the victims and instead urged them to have "patience".[114][115]

According to an internal review conducted by the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility, which was released in November 2020, Acosta showed "poor judgment" in granting Epstein a non-prosecution agreement and failing to notify Epstein's alleged victims about this agreement.

On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18,[117] he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriff's office, was after 3+1⁄2 months allowed to leave the jail on "work release" for up to 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. This contravened the sheriff's own policies requiring a maximum remaining sentence of 10 months and making sex offenders ineligible for the privilege. He was allowed to come and go outside of specified release hours.[100]

Epstein's cell door was left unlocked, and he had access to the attorney room where a television was installed for him, before he was moved to the Stockade's previously unstaffed infirmary. He worked at the office of a foundation he had created shortly before reporting to jail; he dissolved it after he had served his time. The Sheriff's Office received $128,000 from Epstein's non-profit to pay for the costs of extra services being provided during his work release. His office was monitored by "permit deputies" whose overtime was paid by Epstein. They were required to wear suits, and checked in "welcomed guests" at the "front desk". Later the Sheriff's Office said these guest logs were destroyed per the department's "records retention" rules (although inexplicably the Stockade visitor logs were not).[118] He was allowed to use his own driver to drive him between jail and his office and other appointments.[100][118]

Epstein served almost 13 months before being released on July 22, 2009, for a year of probation on house arrest until August 2010.[119][120][121] While on probation he was allowed numerous trips on his corporate jet to his residences in Manhattan and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was allowed long shopping trips and to walk around Palm Beach "for exercise".

If Dershowitz was representing Epstein, you have to say he did a great job. Acosta, on the other hand, appears to be as crooked as a nine dollar bill.

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"Securing a resolution that eliminates both imprisonment and a criminal conviction is the favorable outcome that Ms. Noel prayed for since her arrest,” Jason Foy said.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-epstein-prison-guards_n_61cee8c6e4b0c7d8b8a3912c

Yes, all loose ends have been trimmed, all questions put to bed, and the truth buried so deep even Jimmy Hoffa couldn't find it.  How much were they paid to "look the other way" while the murder occurred? And by whom?

I'm sure nobody really wants to know.

And who does the BBC turn to for comment on Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bbc-interview-alan-dershowitz-maxwell-verdict_n_61cdc2a8e4b04b42ab722ce7
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/31/ian-maxwell-bbc-radio-4-today-interview-sister-ghislaine

Ever get the feeling Prince Andrew is on the BBC editorial board?

Certainly he gets friendly kid-gloves treatment:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50451953

Weirdly, there a pizza restaurant in the center of this child sex-trafficking story. Do you suppose that's where the internet meme about the Clintons came from?

NoCoPilot wrote:

Granted the girls, some of them, were underage.  But I read one of the girls serviced Epstein more than 100 times.  Most of them serviced him numerous times.  They were well paid.  They were willing. It weren't rape.

Here's the real essence of this story, the meat of it. Epstein & Maxwell had tons of money (the source of which is still somewhat mysterious) which they used to purchase pussy. Epstein was a sybarite, a self-indulgent hedonist, whom everybody envies. He had the prettiest girls, the best houses, the best restaurants. Everyone was mad at him for living so ostentatiously, making everyone else look so poor and cheap. A gaudy gold-plated toilet cannot compete.

I don't feel so bad for his "victims." They were star-struck, like everybody else, drawn into his whirlpool of power and influence, and only afterward decided to describe themselves as victims. Being forced to do something, and being paid well to do something unsavory, are two entirely different things.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-59498832
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-59841815
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59557022
https://abcnews.go.com/US/dramatic-testimony-alleged-epstein-victim-carolyn-recounts-maxwells/story?id=81612421
https://www.courthousenews.com/third-teenage-epstein-victim-testifies-in-maxwell-trial/

Ghislaine Maxwell's list of customers is about to be released.  Expect a few hydrogen bombs.

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"After careful review of the detailed objections submitted by Non-Party Does 17, 53, 54, 55, 73, 93 and 151, counsel for Ghislaine Maxwell writes to inform the Court that she does not wish to further address those objections," Maxwell attorney Laura Menninger wrote.

I guess that means there's at least 151 of them?

What's the over/under on Republicans?

Matt Gaetz is a pedophile, pretty much for sure, but I don't know if he's on Maxwell's list.

Stephen Colbert breaks out the sound board as Matt Gaetz's shock jock sex trafficking witness flips

When you have unlimited funds you do not go to trial. Of course you don't.

The Guardian has a pretty withering opinion piece.

Witnesses with damaging information are dying as far away as France. There must be some VERY BIG NAMES implicated.

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French prosecutors said Brunel’s death would put an end to the legal case unless other suspects were put under investigation.

And yet:

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The body of Jean-Luc Brunel, 75, was reportedly found hanging in his cell in the early hours of Saturday. The French prosecutors’ office confirmed the report and said an inquiry had been opened into the exact cause of death, but early indications pointed to suicide.

Nothing suspicious here!

NoCoPilot wrote:

When you have unlimited funds you do not go to trial.  Of course you don't.

What is the price of silence?  £12,000,000.

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Fleet Street Fox for a column in the Mirror, writes: "If you or I had pulled £12million out of nowhere to pay someone who had accused us of sexual assault, the bizzies would be round our house quicker than you could say 'unexplained wealth order.'"

"He has a naval pension of between £20,000 and £30,000 a year, which puts him in the same income bracket as the average UK citizen. He does not own his home, Royal Lodge in Windsor, but paid £1m for a 75-year lease on it. That amounts to £13,333 a year, or £256 a week rent. He doesn't own it, and can be evicted at any time," writes Fleet Street Fox.

"The sudden appearance of that money has raised eyebrows, with talk of a bridging loan from Prince Charles - a bona fide billionaire - and £2m cash from the Queen, although neither of these are confirmed. Perhaps his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, might also wonder why the man who paid her £15,000 a year divorce settlement after 10 years of marriage and two children has given 800 times that to a woman he says he never met, and who alleged he had sex with her on 3 occasions," concludes the columnist.

Crikey. Four million a shag?

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The settlement stopped the lawsuit before the start of evidence gathering

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-asked-to-end-prince-andrew-sex-abuse-lawsuit_n_622796ade4b047f85a413a5b

Of course it did. There be dragons.

Conviction upheld.  Obviously Ghislaine doesn't have access to the same kind of funds and/or information as Epstein, Prince Andrew or Brunel.

Ghislaine Maxwell placed on suicide watch. The irony here of course is that makes it easier, makes it more believable when she is found unresponsive in her cell with a gunshot wound to the back of her skull.