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Fight to reopen teen sex case against Jeff Epstein may set precedent
MyPalmBeachPost ^ | PALM BEACH POST | JANE MUSGRAVE

Posted on 08/31/2017 3:22:14 PM PDT by ptsal

Nearly 10 years after billionaire Jeffrey Epstein signed a plea deal that let him escape federal prosecution on charges of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls at his Palm Beach mansion, the 64-year-old politically-connected money manager faces the possibility that the agreement could be thrown out.

In court papers filed this month, attorneys representing two of the 30 young women prosecutors say Epstein molested lodged their final written pleas aimed at spurring U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra to force federal officials to reopen their investigation into the sordid case.

**snip** If Marra dismisses the lawsuit, “then the government will never have to give any information in any case to any victim,” they wrote, urging him to uphold the provisions of the 13-year-old federal law.

At the same time, the stakes are equally high for Epstein, who has ferried President Bill Clinton on his private jet and counts celebrities, such as Britain’s Prince Andrew, as friends.

(Excerpt) Read more at mypalmbeachpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: billclinton; clinton; epstein; jeffreyepstein; lolitaexpress; princeandrew
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This should make some folks pucker-up.

Time to put real heat on Epstein.

1 posted on 08/31/2017 3:22:14 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: ptsal; Liz; HarleyLady27; artichokegrower
FYI...

*SNIP* As part of the unusual non-prosecution agreement, which wasn’t shared with victims for nearly a year while and after it was being negotiated, federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges that could have sent Epstein to prison for life. In exchange, Epstein in 2008 pleaded guilty in Palm Beach County Circuit Court to two Florida criminal charges — one count each of soliciting a minor for prostitution and soliciting prostitution. He served 13 months of an 18-month sentence in a vacant wing of the county stockade — a cell he was allowed to leave 16 hours a day, six days a week.

2 posted on 08/31/2017 3:23:37 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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Hillary defends and remains married to a rapist.

If Bill doesn’t like that description, please sue me. The discovery will be so juicy!


3 posted on 08/31/2017 3:24:12 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Anitfa = Anti-F.A. = Anti-First Ammendment)
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He is spending most of his time these days in the Virgin Islands.

That's rich.

4 posted on 08/31/2017 3:26:59 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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You got it.
He knows a LOT of stuff about a lot of very powerful people.

He has no intention of going to prison for the rest of his life if he can cut a deal.

That’s why he’s going to have a very short life if the decision is to re-open the case.

I have no doubt his airplane will simply fall from the sky, perhaps over an ocean.


5 posted on 08/31/2017 3:52:29 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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sounds like the fiz is already in, otherwise the Judge would have found the Lawyers Behavior alone in this case was Contempt and he would have Jailed them on the Spot.

Oh, I forgot we don’t have a Justice System anymore, we have a Legal System.


6 posted on 08/31/2017 3:56:59 PM PDT by eyeamok (Idle hands are the Devil's workshop)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“juicy” eeeeew!


7 posted on 08/31/2017 3:58:23 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison, The Clintons, Holder, Obama, and Huma for starters)
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Would you call that the Ron Brown Dilemma?

I have no doubt his airplane will simply fall from the sky, perhaps over an ocean.

8 posted on 08/31/2017 4:01:26 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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Weiner’s computer. The noose is tightening.


9 posted on 08/31/2017 4:07:17 PM PDT by PJammers (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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...to force federal officials to reopen their investigation into the sordid case.

They probably found some photo of Trump and Epstein together at some charity event in Palm Beach from 30 years ago and want to get that into the news cycle somehow. Who knows, perhaps some Russian businessman attended the event too... smoking gun!!!!

10 posted on 08/31/2017 4:12:32 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges

To state the obvious, this was during the second GW Bush administration.

11 posted on 08/31/2017 4:16:38 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: ptsal

Wow! That is like, actually better, than in the movie “Goodfellas” where the Mafia was doing time with seperate quarters and great food.


12 posted on 08/31/2017 4:17:58 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: aposiopetic

Creepy billionaires are politically agnostic in times like these.


13 posted on 08/31/2017 4:28:37 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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The Ron Brown Syndrome.
It’s well known amongst pros.
There’s no cure.


14 posted on 08/31/2017 4:36:21 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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IIRC, it seems like Imran Awan’s daddy may have researched a procedure that produced similar results.

I guess that was the Zia Zap.


15 posted on 08/31/2017 4:41:06 PM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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BUMP


16 posted on 08/31/2017 5:53:05 PM PDT by PGalt
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methinks a huge amount of “keep me out of jail” money was paid out in this case. Evidence, as I understand, was overwhelming. I wonder who received it, or most of it.


17 posted on 08/31/2017 6:02:30 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: ptsal
Put the heat on the rapist too.


18 posted on 08/31/2017 6:27:21 PM PDT by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: Mariner

IF he’s already served time, isn’t a new set of punishments a violation of the rules against double jeopardy?


19 posted on 08/31/2017 7:51:12 PM PDT by tbw2
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“Weiner’s computer. The noose is tightening.”

Maybe Podesta’s emails, too.


20 posted on 08/31/2017 7:56:12 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Negative people make healthy people sick." - Roger Ailes)
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