Virginia Roberts says she was 16 and working as a locker room attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort when she was approached by Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s associate, about becoming a masseuse for Epstein. Caption to Photo Above.
It’s good to see a newspaper that’s still doing actual journalism. This time in the cesspool that is the Epstein human trafficking case. For those who aren’t reading along the Cliff Note version: Mr. Trump’s pal and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein was offered a travesty of a plea bargain in which he spent only 13 months in Jail for what began with over 100 complaints of trafficking in minor girls as young as 13.
In last weeks action in another civil action the court determined that the plea bargain personally negotiated by then US Prosecutor Alex Acosta who is now Trump’s Secretary of Labor was illegal. Interesting how that happened isn’t it.
Miami Herald-Privacy rights versus press freedoms took center stage Wednesday at an explosive federal appeals court hearing in New York, where lawyers argued to unseal confidential court files that could reveal evidence of an underage sex trafficking operation allegedly run by New York multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reserved judgment in the case, but the panel suggested it was leaning toward the release to the public of vast portions of the court record. The file on the case, which was settled in 2017, contains more than 1,000 documents, lawyers said during oral arguments led by the Miami Herald, which seeks to open the entire file.
In a current twist Alan Dershowitz who was on Epstein's team of lawyers and has long been rumored to have been a co-conspirators himself supports the full release of all sealed documents which he contends will prove is innocence.
Inch by inch, row by row….Justice grinds its way toward what is hoped will be a reopening of the criminal case which has no statute of limitations. If the court unseals these records we may learn who the unindicted co-conspirators are.
Another Cypress in the swamp of the life that our President inhabits.
UPDATE: I would like to ad this link to what is the best and most comprehensive diary written at DKos on this subject. www.dailykos.com/… “What we all knew about the Trafficking”
Fixed ID in photo to Melina not Roberts.
Thanks for all the discussion. I’ve learned quite a lot.