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Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says

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Re: Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says

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Post by lazide »

dragonwriter wrote: post #39
lazide wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the private settlement includes a gag condition for the primary criminal witness….

> If the private settlement includes a gag condition for the primary criminal witness…. A civil settlement cannot include a condition prohibiting someone from testifying or otherwise cooperating with a criminal investigation, and one which purported to do so would be void.

Depends on how much the witness wants to be paid, IMO.

Void as in not enforceable in court, of course.

Void as in the witness still gets paid? Depends on how it’s structured.

Re: Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says

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Post by lazide »

dragonwriter wrote: post #48
tdeck wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it legal to enforce an NDA that covers up a crime?

> Is it legal to enforce an NDA that covers up a crime? Not only would such an NDA be unenforceable, offering (in so far as that implies a threat to enforce) and even moreso directly threatening to enforce one for that purpose (leveraging the other parties lack of knowledge that it was unenforceable or fear of the consequences of a lawsuit even without merit) would seem to be witness tampering, a separate crime.

Depends entirely on how it’s structured.

Re: Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says

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Post by rafram »

walkhour wrote: post #83

Why every single journalist in the country is not after the little black book, when it would be the biggest story in decades, is simply dumbfounding to me.

It’s been published: https://epsteinsblackbook.com/

It’s not really that interesting. A name being in there doesn’t say anything about his relationship to the person. There are no notes, no explanations, just names.

Re: Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says

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Post by sieabahlpark »

rafram wrote: post #84
walkhour wrote: post #83

Why every single journalist in the country is not after the little black book, when it would be the biggest story in decades, is simply dumbfounding to me.

It’s been published: https://epsteinsblackbook.com/ It’s not really that interesting. A name being in there doesn’t say anything about his relationship to the person. There are no notes, no explanations, just names.

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Re: Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says

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Post by walkhour »

rafram wrote: post #84
walkhour wrote: post #83

Why every single journalist in the country is not after the little black book, when it would be the biggest story in decades, is simply dumbfounding to me.

It’s been published: https://epsteinsblackbook.com/ It’s not really that interesting. A name being in there doesn’t say anything about his relationship to the person. There are no notes, no explanations, just names.

Thank you, but this is a redacted version right [0]?

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/ghis...

Re: Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says

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Post by wahnfrieden »

wolverine876 wrote: post #56
wahnfrieden wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

application of law is politicized and protects status quo power

What does that mean? It's at least somewhat politicized and protects the status quo, but it's clearly not entirely such - powerful status quo people go to jail and suffer other penalties. The meaningful question is, how and in what ways is it true, and who what where and when? And what shall we do about it?

Show me the Fortune 500 employers in jail for billions in wage theft vs those in jail for single digit dollar property theft from those same companies

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Post by [deleted] »

thefounder wrote: post #72
voltaireodactyl wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Espionage, like all significant industries, relies heavily on one’s personal contacts. In the spy game, reputation and trust are much harder to build, given the necessary lack of transparency on all sides. For this reason, espionage has often been something of a family business — the children meet the contacts of the parent, and thereby essentially inherit the store.

But can the doughter be a good spy if it's well known her father was a spy and most likely she is a spy as well? I mean her cover is blown.

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Re: Epstein's sex trafficking was aided by JPMorgan, US Virgin Islands lawsuit says

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Post by dragonwriter »

pclmulqdq wrote: post #77
dragonwriter wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There’s literally a black book with names in it, as well as flight records. That’s…not proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Heck, its probably not even probable cause of any crime. > There is plenty of evidence here to get started on a charge There is evidence enough to open investigations, sure. Law enforcement agencies don’t generally announce that. Whether there is evidence to do more than that is…speculation.

There's enough evidence to start writing subpoenas, which is really how this process works. They don't generally start with enough evidence to convict, they start with enough to compel people to give them more.

> There's enough evidence to start writing subpoenas, which is really how this process works.

Even were I to agree that that is true, the empaneling of a grand jury and the issuing of subpoenas is done secretly. We only know of the criminal grand jury that is empaneled for Trump in D. C. because Trump’s extremely irregular legal challenge over the docs seized at Mar-a-lago revealed it.

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