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Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by naptu2: 3:13pm On Aug 10, 2019
This is a conspiracy theorist's heaven. He had previously been arrested for sleeping with underaged girls, but he was only given a slap on the wrist (in fact, he was treated like he was above the law). This was way back in the mid 2000s.

Some of the people that were involved in the first case say that they were told to back off because it involved national security/the intelligence services.

Then he was arrested again and there were rumours that he supplied underaged girls to Prince Andrew, Donald Trump and other very wealthy and connected people.

Now he is dead.


Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York

10 August 2019 
US & Canada



Epstein was awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges

Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his prison cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, US media report.

His body was discovered at 07:30 local time (11:30 GMT) on Saturday at the facility in New York.

The circumstances of his death are unclear. He was reportedly on suicide watch following an earlier incident.

Epstein, 66, had pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and conspiracy charges and was being held without bail.

Last month, he was found semi-conscious in his cell with injuries to his neck. He was treated at a nearby hospital, reports say, before being returned to New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center.

Epstein was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.

He was arrested on 6 July after landing in New Jersey on his private jet.

Who was Jeffrey Epstein?

New York-born Epstein worked as a teacher before moving into finance.

Prior to the criminal cases against him, he was best known for his wealth and high-profile connections.

He was often seen socialising with the rich and powerful, including President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton and the UK's Prince Andrew.

Reports of Epstein's wealth vary, with his Virgin Islands-based firm generating no public records.


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1) Jeffrey Epstein with Prince Andrew

2) Jeffrey Epstein with Donald Trump.

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by naptu2: 3:14pm On Aug 10, 2019
In 2005, the Palm Beach police in Florida began investigating Epstein after a parent complained that he molested her 14-year-old daughter. Epstein eventually pleaded guilty and was convicted in a Florida state court in 2008 of soliciting a prostitute and of procuring an under-18 girl for prostitution. He served 13 months in custody with work release, as part of a plea deal, where federal officials had identified 36 girls as young as 14 years old who had been molested.

Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York. He died on August 10, 2019, after reportedly hanging himself in his Manhattan prison cell.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by naptu2: 3:20pm On Aug 10, 2019
In March 2005, a woman contacted Florida's Palm Beach Police Department and alleged that her 14-year-old stepdaughter had been taken to Epstein's mansion by an older girl. There she was allegedly paid $300 to strip and massage Epstein. She had allegedly undressed, but left the encounter wearing her underwear.

Police began a 13-month undercover investigation of Epstein, that included a search of his home. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also became involved in the investigation. Subsequently, the police alleged that Epstein had paid several girls to perform sexual acts with him. Interviews with five alleged victims and 17 witnesses under oath, a high school transcript and other items found in Epstein's trash and home allegedly showed that some of the girls involved were under 18. The police search of Epstein's home found two hidden cameras and large numbers of photos of girls throughout the house, some of whom the police had interviewed in the course of their investigation.

The International Business Times reported that papers filed in a 2006 lawsuit alleged that Epstein installed concealed cameras in numerous places on his property to record sexual activity with underage girls by prominent people for criminal purposes, such as blackmail. Epstein allegedly "lent" girls to powerful people to ingratiate himself with them and also to gain possible blackmail information. In 2015, evidence came to light that one of the powerful men at Epstein's mansion may have been Prince Andrew, Duke of York. A former employee told the police that Epstein would receive massages three times a day. Eventually the FBI compiled reports on “34 confirmed minors” eligible for restitution (increased to 40 in the NPA) whose allegations of molestation by Epstein included corroborating details. Julie Brown’s 2018 expose in the Miami Herald identified about 80 and located about 60 victims. She quotes the then police chief, Michael Reiter, “This was 50-something ‘shes’ and one ‘he’ — and the ‘shes’ all basically told the same story.”

In May 2006, Palm Beach police filed a probable cause affidavit saying that Epstein should be charged with four counts of unlawful sex with minors and one molestation count.

Epstein's high-powered team of defense lawyers included Roy Black, Gerald Lefcourt, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, and former Clinton special prosecutor Ken Starr.

After press reports that Epstein would be charged with one count of aggravated assault with no intent to commit a felony, Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter accused the Palm Beach County state prosecutor, Barry Krischer, of being too lenient and was instrumental in bringing in the FBI. Instead Krischer convened a Palm Beach County grand juryusually only done in capital cases. Presented evidence from only two victims, the grand jury returned a single charge of felony solicitation of prostitution, to which Epstein pleaded not guilty in August 2006.

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by naptu2: 3:23pm On Aug 10, 2019
In July 2006, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein, nicknamed "Operation Leap Year." It resulted in a 53-page indictment in June 2007 that was never presented to a grand jury. Alexander Acosta, then the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, agreed to a plea deal 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 states: "Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims."

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". Epstein agreed to plead guilty to two state charges (for soliciting prostitution and for procuring an under-18 for prostitution), register as a sex offender, and pay restitution to three dozen victims identified by the FBI. The Guardian, a British newspaper, reported (somewhat inaccurately), "Despite this, the U.S. government eventually agreed to allow Epstein to plead guilty to just one count of soliciting prostitution from an underage girl under Florida state law. Epstein agreed not to contest civil claims brought by the 40 women identified by the FBI, but escaped a prosecution that could have seen him jailed for the rest of his life."

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."
Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by naptu2: 3:28pm On Aug 10, 2019
Conviction and sentencing (2008–2011)

On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18, 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.

Epstein's cell door was left unlocked, and he had access to the attorney room where a TV 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 Epsteins'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, 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). He was allowed to use his own driver to drive him between jail and his office and other appointments.

Epstein served almost 13 months before being released for a year of probation on house arrest until August 2010. 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".

After a contested hearing in January 2011, and an appeal, he stayed registered in New York State as a "level three" (high risk of repeat offense) sex offender, a lifelong designation. At that hearing the Manhattan District Attorney inexplicably argued unsuccessfully that the level should be reduced to a low risk "level one" and was chided by the judge. Despite opposition from Epstein's lawyer that he had a "main" home in the U.S. Virgin Islands, the judge confirmed he personally must check in with the New York Police Department every 90 days. Though Epstein had been a level three registered sex offender in NY since 2010, the New York Police Department never enforced the 90-day regulation, though non-compliance is a felony.

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The immunity agreement and his lenient treatment were the subject of ongoing public dispute. The Palm Beach police chief accused the state of giving him preferential treatment,[63] and the Miami Herald said U.S. Attorney Acosta gave Epstein "the deal of a lifetime". Following Epstein's arrest in July 2019, on sex trafficking charges, Acosta resigned as Secretary of Labor on July 19, 2019.

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by naptu2: 3:32pm On Aug 10, 2019
Jane Doe v. Epstein and Trump (2016)

A federal lawsuit filed in California in April 2016, against Epstein and Donald Trump by a California woman alleged that the two men sexually assaulted her at a series of parties at Epstein's Manhattan residence in 1994, when she was 13 years old. The suit was dismissed by a federal judge in May 2016 because it did not raise valid claims under federal law. The woman filed another federal suit in New York in June 2016, but it was withdrawn three months later, apparently without being served on the defendants. A third federal suit was filed in New York in September 2016. The two latter suits included affidavits by an anonymous witness who attested to the accusations in the suits, asserting Epstein employed her to procure underage girls for him, and an anonymous person who declared the plaintiff had told him/her about the assaults at the time they occurred. The plaintiff, who had filed anonymously as Jane Doe, was scheduled to appear in a Los Angeles press conference six days before the 2016 election, but abruptly canceled the event; her lawyer Lisa Bloom asserted that the woman had received threats. The suit was dropped on November 4, 2016. Trump attorney Alan Garten flatly denied the allegations, while Epstein declined to comment.

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by JayEntaur(m): 4:04pm On Aug 10, 2019
Goes to reinforce that the maxim "though all animals are equal, some are more equal than the others" holds true in every society, not just in Nigeria.

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by JOHNSONSOLAFUNMI(m): 5:11pm On Aug 10, 2019
Clinton, trump, prince Andrew, ex prime minister of israel, the royals and powerful people are linked to Epstein

Don't take side, all I know is the powerful and the rich can do anything and get away with it

You know how many powerful are linked to this man and his sex trafficking group, many would have go down with him if this didn't happen, sometimes the conspiracy theorist are real, the rich controls the world

How can someone who's on 24 hours surveillance commit suicide, and I'm sure the footage will not be released to the public

it continues ....

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by Raydos: 5:13pm On Aug 10, 2019
I'm talking to you jailer
Stop calling me a prisoner



Asa Kare laye

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by Kentuforchrist(m): 5:14pm On Aug 10, 2019
FTC
Just like that chaii
Rip

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by Sylraph1: 5:14pm On Aug 10, 2019
R I P

Am very sure that the billions he left behind will be utilised by the government for the betterment of the people.....

But here in Nigeria,the Money will be shared by some greedy bastards then will come out tomorrow and us that 3 MILLION Nigerians has been lifted out of poverty

#FAILED COUNTRY

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by Kentuforchrist(m): 5:15pm On Aug 10, 2019
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interested stakers needed (pay after winning)
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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by Nobody: 5:15pm On Aug 10, 2019
angry
Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by dayleke: 5:15pm On Aug 10, 2019
Didn't they say he tried to commit suicide before a couple of weeks ago?

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by Lamasta(m): 5:15pm On Aug 10, 2019
Hmmm powers that be are involved in his death

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by Sirmuel1(m): 5:15pm On Aug 10, 2019
They killed him before the secret comes out in the open.
That's the power of Money and Influence.

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by RoyalBlu(f): 5:15pm On Aug 10, 2019
Sad and shameful end.

Is he resting in peace now

Just wondering.

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by cococandy(f): 5:15pm On Aug 10, 2019
Evil men in power. Sleeping with children and selling women for their personal gratification.

They would rather have him kill himself than out them.

That’s why the fight for equality and the fight against human trafficking seems to be getting nowhere. When the people who are supposed to protect are culpable in the harm. Disgusting.

I hope he rots in hell. Him and everyone who helped him sell women and rape children.

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by Nobody: 5:15pm On Aug 10, 2019
OP so you're trying to say the government killed him?
Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by CanadaOrBust: 5:15pm On Aug 10, 2019
Conspiracy theorist’s heaven indeed

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by logon599: 5:16pm On Aug 10, 2019
h
Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by brushesz: 5:16pm On Aug 10, 2019
Ok
Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by Cousin9999: 5:16pm On Aug 10, 2019
Everyone knows it was a hit. I guess they just didn't want to take the risk or help him flee the country.

I'm still surprised they did something so obvious. I guess it was to send a message.

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by gaetano: 5:16pm On Aug 10, 2019
He tried to kill himself a couple of days ago, and didn't succeed. He should have been put on suicide watch.

Sorry, I smell something fishy here. There were way too many powerful people who could have been implicated in a full investigation. This is just "too convenient".

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by lazinny(m): 5:16pm On Aug 10, 2019
Wow, now what happens to all his wealth? This life sha

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by BlackfireX: 5:16pm On Aug 10, 2019
Buhari why
Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by BruncleZuma: 5:17pm On Aug 10, 2019
This one go just add petrol to plenty conspiracy theories...

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by realestniggah: 5:17pm On Aug 10, 2019
My man Donald Trump had him killed

That man had too much files on Donald Trump

A man like this doesn't just commit suicide...

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead In Cell In New York by naptu2: 5:17pm On Aug 10, 2019
Northmall:
OP so you're trying to say the government killed him?

Where exactly did I say that?

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