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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 nickphx »

lfodofod wrote: post #73
nickphx wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They do work like that. My house was raided as part of an investigation. It was about two years after the search that the DOJ indicted me for conspiracy to commit copyright infringement..

Were you arrested? No? How is this supposed to refute the GP comment if not?

Yes. The FBI and DHS agents arrested and detained me while they searched my house.

I was given an opportunity to be 'interviewed' while being detained. The agents presented a letter from the AUSA basically outlining what they were looking for and explaining how it would be in my best interest to cooperate with the investigation. lol..

There were 9 other people involved, it was pretty big national news at the time.

It was almost two years later that the DOJ indicted me.

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

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Post by lazide »

lazide wrote: post #82
dragonwriter wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

One theoretical example, would be something like $1mln/yr paid in weekly installments, conditional on no details she knows ever being known by anyone else.

If approached by a cutout attorney (using attorney client privilege and on behalf of ‘anonymous friends’), payments from blind trusts not associated with the royal family, and a couple layers of that most of it offshore, and only a very determined investigation with a lot of international pull is getting anywhere. And the signs are pretty clear, that isn’t happening in a case like this.

The incentives are aligned such, that I doubt such an agreement would even need to be written down.

With the connections and pull within the gov’t the royal family has, any attempt to even track it down would likely get someone shut down, even in the FBI or CIA. But maybe I’m just imagining things.

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

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Post by PeterStuer »

iinnPP wrote: post #3

Is there a legitimate reason so few people have been charged in the case of Epstein?

The potential perpetrators can afford masses of top notch lawyers, so cases will have to be tight to lead to any convictions. Besides, who would benefit from the resulting loss in campaign contributions?

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

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Post by shapefrog »

lazide wrote: post #25
dragonwriter wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In the case of Prince Albert Prince Andrew; to my knowledge, no Prince Albert has been connected with Epstein. > there was a private settlement with the victim with the strongest case. In theory, a private settlement of civil charges does not protect against criminal charges arising from the same conduct.

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….

The gag clause expires in the next few months.

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

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Post by shapefrog »

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.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/i-called-everyo...

I (personally) believe that most were Maxwells contacts, not epsteins.

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

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Post by PicassoCTs »

iinnPP wrote: post #3

Is there a legitimate reason so few people have been charged in the case of Epstein?

Write some of the suspected names here with Epstein in the same line and watch you getting downvoted by reputation cleansing bots within seconds.

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

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Post by bbbbb5 »

nickphx wrote: post #101
lfodofod wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Were you arrested? No? How is this supposed to refute the GP comment if not?

Yes. The FBI and DHS agents arrested and detained me while they searched my house. I was given an opportunity to be 'interviewed' while being detained. The agents presented a letter from the AUSA basically outlining what they were looking for and explaining how it would be in my best interest to cooperate with the investigation. lol.. There were 9 other people involved, it was pretty big national news at the time. It…

Right, but you were presumably not detained for more than a small amount of hours and not placed in pretrial detention?

The Speedy Trial concerns are completely different depending on if you're in government custody or not.

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

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Post by bbbbb5 »

wolverine876 wrote: post #57
ETH_start wrote: post #54

Lawyers after big damages are always going to try to blame every one even tangentially related to a crime for that crime, which encourages a society where we must presume every one guilty, until we prove them innocent, before engaging in a free market interaction with them. If cash were a bank that could pay damages, they would blame every crime where cash changed hands, for that crime, and it would become the most v…

The party suing in this case is the government.

It's a bit weird to refer to the attorney general of the USVI as "the government", that's something you'd generally associate with the federal government.

Not only that, said AG was apparently fired by the USVI government for bringing this suit, probably because the premise is fairly ridiculous https://viconsortium.com/vi-government/virgin-islands-attorn...

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

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Post by feet »

bbbbb5 wrote: post #107
nickphx wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. The FBI and DHS agents arrested and detained me while they searched my house. I was given an opportunity to be 'interviewed' while being detained. The agents presented a letter from the AUSA basically outlining what they were looking for and explaining how it would be in my best interest to cooperate with the investigation. lol.. There were 9 other people involved, it was pretty big national news at the time. It…

Right, but you were presumably not detained for more than a small amount of hours and not placed in pretrial detention? The Speedy Trial concerns are completely different depending on if you're in government custody or not.

Tell that to the people rotting in Rikers without trial
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