IMO, the “right price” offer is along the lines of: “Sing like a canary and we’ll put you in a Club Fed instead of a place with a short life expectancy for kiddie diddlers.”
What are the chances that Epstein will be released on bail? I see that R Kelly was denied, but he’s no Epstein.
The hearing is about to start, so I can jump in and say that while it isn’t 0%, I would say it is very, very low.
Be quite an uproar if he gets “house arrest” and then skips, knowing all we know about how he was prepared to flee in the first place.
Rejected. Epstein to remain in jail, Berman citing danger to others and the community. Written ruling to be available in a hour or so.
ETA: Apparently, the section about the above “danger to others and the community” runs to ten full pages.
Some businesses connected to Epstein have been tracked down through the Panama Papers, it seems:
One of the few accurate things that Trump has ever said is that he could just shoot somebody in front of witnesses and get away with it. About the only thing he could do that would result in punishment would be walking into Congress and killing Republican Congress members.
But not Democrats, those he could get away with killing.
That’s impeachment not prosecution.
let’s hope he doesn’t get ANOTHER slap on the wrist
AFAIK there is zero evidence to support this assertion, and quite a lot to deny it.
This seems incredibly unlikely. Epstein does not appear to be a stupid man, and he probably would not shit where he eats, so to speak.
That said, on the infinitesimally small chance that such a thing happened, Ivanka Trump would be deserving of the same protections as any other teenage victim of Epstein, and I would hope that such pictures would be destroyed immediately, without copies being made.
I supposed pictures like that might be needed as evidence at some trial in the future, and I suppose they could be shown in a closed courtroom, but after that, they should be destroyed.
Going to park this here, rather than start a new thread:
George Nader, Witness in Mueller Probe, Hit With New Charges of Sex Trafficking
“Really, guys… the fake avatars? It’s just too much. Let’s just stick with the email hacking and collusion with Russia.”
When I was a kid, I would go down every summer and visit my grandparents for 4-6 weeks at a time - they had lost their daughter when I was 1yo, so her children (me and my sibs) were the closest connection they had to my mom, so they were glad to host us, even as small children.
They were typically stern, frugal, and religious, as one would expect people who raised children during the Great Depression would be. And I was a typical nerdy kid, reading books that were “too old” for me ever since I started reading.
So, in 1978, 1979 or thereabouts, I went down to Daytona Beach for the summer, like always, but this time sneaking in my favorite book of the moment, The Book of Lists, which had all sorts of cool info about pop stars, missing persons, the occult, and… yes… sex.
So, like a genius, I hid it in the closet.
Where my grandmother inevitably found it.
Long story short, she’s holding the book in front of me and my grandfather, flipping through this well-worn paperback, reading the “horrifying” information I was looking at. Then she gets to “6 people with additional body parts” (the Mexican guy with the head growing out of his head sticks with me to this day, but I digress…), turns the page in shock, only to see
“6 most popular positions for sexual intercourse.”
That did it, I can tell you! My grandmother lost it, demanding who and where I got this book, and like a 11yo 400 miles from home, I cracked with some typical kid bullshit:
“IT WAS DANNY’S BOOK! HE READ IT AND THEN GAVE IT TO ME TO READ! I HAVEN’T EVEN LOOKED AT IT YET!”
For years after that, my grandmother always asked me if I knew Danny. (He didn’t even exist, to be honest. Sorry, Grammy.)
So… why is this relevant to Jeff Epstein?
Very few times can I laugh when reading about pedophiles, but I admit it: This time, I laughed.
Was the mysterious person who used this fake foreign passport and then gave it to Epstein his twin brother? Otherwise how did he manage to use a passport with Epstein’s face on it?
Apropos of this, I just saw this on Facebook;
I was wondering about this part as well.
Pshaw, twin brother is so Agatha Christie. This is the twenty-first century. It was Jeffrey Epstein, but from a parallel universe… dun dun dun. If through the wormhole another Jeffrey Epstein did flit, you must acquit.
It’s scandal firewalking. As long as we jump from one to the next quickly enough, nobody gets hurt.
Stumble, faceplant, Noriega face.