# Jeffery Epstein has been arrested for sex trafficking a minor **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658 "2019-07-07T05:03:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/41 "2019-07-07T22:46:30Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > The Miami Herald did an excellent investigative series on the prosecutorial corruption encountered by Epstein’s victims and his intimidation of local, state and federal law enforcement. > > This link goes to the first story in the series, there is a dropdown on top that you can use to progress to the later stories. > > [https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html](https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html) That’s disgusting. Slugs shrivel up when exposed to too much sunlight, hopefully there’s now enough light that some justice can come out of this. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/42 "2019-07-07T23:02:55Z")
Is there any indication that we get to learn more at tomorrow’s hearing? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/43 "2019-07-07T23:12:31Z")
Dershowitz has had a long and fabled career defending scumbags and helping the rich and powerful to escape justice. He’s a natural for Trump and Epstein. Hell, Farnaby no doubt fantasizes about being a rich scumbag, instead of the garden variety kind, in the event he someday needs a Dershowitz too. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/44 "2019-07-07T23:41:24Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > Whatever happens to Epstein (and Trump) regarding pedophila-related crimes, I have no problem with that happening to Bill Clinton as well. But at least let’s start with putting Epstein on trial for his latest charges and seeing what they can be rolled up into. In all honesty, I do not understand why banging children has so often been treated as a quirk in “sophisticated” circles. Roman Polanski, Jeffery Epstein, Kevin Spacey, those British dudes. God only knows how many others. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/45 "2019-07-07T23:46:19Z")
Quicksilver, Beverly Russell (a man) not only molested his stepdaughter, but he was also exposed after that stepdaughter strapped her two toddlers into their car seats and let the car roll into a pond, and later claimed she was carjacked by a black man. Does that story sound familiar? It should; he was the stepfather of one Susan Smith. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/46 "2019-07-07T23:50:45Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Quicksilver, Beverly Russell (a man) not only molested his stepdaughter, but he was also exposed after that stepdaughter strapped her two toddlers into their car seats and let the car roll into a pond, and later claimed she was carjacked by a black man. > > Does that story sound familiar? It should; he was the stepfather of one Susan Smith. I know this wasn’t directed at me but that’s interesting, at least in a morbid way, I had never heard about that connection. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/47 "2019-07-08T00:10:28Z")
Well, this is interesting… [Guess Whose Daughter Is Reportedly a Prosecutor in Jeffrey Epstein Case](https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/guess-whose-daughter-is-reportedly-a-prosecutor-in-jeffrey-epstein-case/) > [@](#): > > Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, is reportedly a prosecutor in the new criminal case against convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/48 "2019-07-08T01:22:24Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Quicksilver, Beverly Russell (a man) not only molested his stepdaughter, but he was also exposed after that stepdaughter strapped her two toddlers into their car seats and let the car roll into a pond, and later claimed she was carjacked by a black man. > > Does that story sound familiar? It should; he was the stepfather of one Susan Smith. I remember that tragic story, but was not aware of the connection. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/49 "2019-07-08T03:37:51Z")
Smith said that the incest started when she was 15, and never stopped; both admitted that the last incident was just a week or two before she killed her children. Both of them also stated that the sex was always consensual, but we all know that it was a terrible violation of boundaries. Neither his wife nor her (estranged) husband knew about it before the disaster. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/50 "2019-07-08T05:44:25Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Dershowitz is a standard issue Democrat. Sure, Jan. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/51 "2019-07-08T06:03:10Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > You literally said nobody ever accused Clinton of rape. No, what I _literally_ said, in the context of discussing whinging republicans desperately blurting out “Bill Clinton!” every time Jeffrey Epstein’s name is mentioned, was: As for Bill Clinton - as far as I can tell, no one’s accused him of doing anything but catching a free plane ride (unlike Epstein, Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz, who’ve all been accused of rape, directly by name.) Your inability to follow a conversation must be a real handicap. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/52 "2019-07-08T13:33:04Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > In all honesty, I do not understand why banging children has so often been treated as a quirk in “sophisticated” circles. Roman Polanski, Jeffery Epstein, Kevin Spacey, those British dudes. God only knows how many others. I think there is sort of a quantum reality to these media stories… enough people simultaneously believe that ephebophilia is more understandable than pedophilia, but it didn’t really happen, and anyway people are out to get him, anyway it happened a long time ago, and he’s done so many good things after he did the bad thing. Which again, he did not do. I call it quantum bullshit which is kind of like gaslighting except the abused cooperates with the abuser to keep several contradictory stories alive, because we prefer the known uncertainty to the unknown truth. ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/53 "2019-07-08T14:17:45Z")
Acosta gave him the deal. Barr worked for the firm that represented Epstein. Trump ran the place where one of Epstein’s underage victims was recruited, Virgins Roberts recruited at Mar a Lago. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/54 "2019-07-08T14:46:30Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > I didn’t realize that standard issue Democrats were such Trump fans. The approval rating on Trump among Democrats seems to belie your claim here. Dershowitz is not a Trump supporter. I believe he supported Clinton. In any case I have been anti-Dershowitz for awhile now- as I am a libertarian that should not be a surprise. Trump should be brought down for war crimes, but rape charges are very serious and should be investigated and prosecuted if true. Hopefully the Russophobes will move on to this, if they won’t pursue impeachment for war crimes, and give up on conspiracy theories. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/55 "2019-07-08T14:51:47Z")
“How did you spend your holiday weekend?” “Well, I opened it by arguing that ‘detention centers’ were nothing like ‘concentration camps’, then I closed it by defending a pedophile by saying ‘he was your friend, too!’. You?” “… get away. Now.” ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/56 "2019-07-08T15:13:12Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > Dershowitz is not a Trump supporter. I believe he supported Clinton. Go back on time far enough, and Trump was a Clinton supporter. But for the past few years Dershowitz has been an “A-list” Trump apologist and frequent Hannity guest. [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/11/alan-dershowitz-donald-trump-what-happened-218359](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/11/alan-dershowitz-donald-trump-what-happened-218359) ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/57 "2019-07-08T15:39:45Z")
A funny thing about Dershowitz is he was mainly hired by OJ to work on the appeal of the case. Of course there was no need for an appeal after the jury let OJ walk. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/58 "2019-07-08T15:53:42Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > “How did you spend your holiday weekend?” > “Well, I opened it by arguing that ‘detention centers’ were nothing like ‘concentration camps’, then I closed it by defending a pedophile by saying ‘he was your friend, too!’. You?” > “… get away. Now.” Right I did neither, but thanks for demonstrating your stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/59 "2019-07-08T15:54:43Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > Go back on time far enough, and Trump was a Clinton supporter. But for the past few years Dershowitz has been an “A-list” Trump apologist and frequent Hannity guest. > > [https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/11/alan-dershowitz-donald-trump-what-happened-218359](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/11/alan-dershowitz-donald-trump-what-happened-218359) He initially supported Biden until Biden said something forbidden about Israel. Standard issue Dem, sorry to inform you. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658/60 "2019-07-08T16:06:17Z")
> [@WillFarnaby](#): > > He initially supported Biden until Biden said something forbidden about Israel. Standard issue Dem, sorry to inform you. What does that have to do with Trump supporting Clinton? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeffery-epstein-has-been-arrested-for-sex-trafficking-a-minor/836658.md?page=4)