Posted on 07/13/2019 7:23:45 AM PDT by bitt
Financier Jeffrey Epstein paid $350,000 to two potential witnesses against him in his sex trafficking case, New York federal prosecutors alleged Friday in a bid to keep the 66-year-old behind bars until trial.
According to prosecutors, Epstein wired the money late last year, days after the Miami Herald published the first in a series of articles scrutinizing a plea agreement Epstein reached with federal prosecutors in 2008 that secretly wound down a sex abuse investigation involving at least 40 teenage girls that could have landed him behind bars for life. Alexander Acosta, who approved the plea deal as the then-U.S. Attorney for South Florida, resigned as labor secretary earlier Friday.
The government's filing, citing financial records, said that Epstein sent $100,000 on Nov. 30, 2018, to "an individual named as a possible co-conspirator in the [plea agreement]." Three days later, the filing says, Epstein wired $250,000 to "another individual named as a possible co-conspirator ... and also identified as one of the defendant's employees."
"This course of action, and in particular its timing, suggests the defendant was attempting to further influence co-conspirators who might provide information against him in light of the recently re-emerging allegations," the prosecutors said.
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Someone please refresh my memory.
Didn’t Marc Rich skip the country and stay away until he received his pardon from Bill Clinton?
Epstein sure is a cheapskate.
Why is this act of paying off witnesses not bribery and subornation? DOJ should have been all over this.
Subornation
They were.
Mueller ran the Epstein release, Uranium-1
transfer to Iran/Russia/++++, and ...
That’s chump change. He can afford better bribes than that.
I thought witness tampering was a very big, very heavy crime.
Didn’t Marc Rich skip the country and stay away until he received his pardon from Bill Clinton?
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right.
Rich's well endowed wife, Denise Rich, made a personal trip to the oval oral office to deliver a $450,000 donation to the Clinton Presidential Library Foundation.
Could this 450k been a quid pro quo for bubba giving Rich a last minute pardon on his last day in office???
He could have waved that cash in front of any local university and bought whatever he wanted. He’s just an abuser who got pleasure in violating these minor girls, obviously.
Well duh, only a crazy right-wing Kook would think there was a quid pro quo there. LOL
Slick Willie must have been quite pleased. Nice big chunk of change and nice big boobs. His two favorite things next to abusing women.
Well duh, only a crazy right-wing Kook would think there was a quid pro quo there. LOL
Slick Willie must have been quite pleased. Nice big chunk of change and nice big boobs. His two favorite things next to abusing women.
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har!
win win for bubba
Rich was already a fugitive from justice when Clinton pardoned him. He’d been indicted, and fled the country. Then Bubba pardoned him, despite being warned against it. But of course, Holder was AG, and nothing happened to Clinton over it.
Instant classic
I just remembered something about the Clinton’s setting up a gift registry for themselves in some stores, after they left the White House. I’ve tried searching for it, but the only thing that comes up are the articles about them removing furniture from the White House. Does anyone else remember the gift registry? I think one of the stores was Tiffany, but I can’t be certain.
Didn’t they slam Dennis Hastert for paying witnesses off?
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