Victims: Feds Hid 'Sweetheart' Deal for Sex Offender With Deep Political Ties
Source: ABC News
New court filings are bringing fresh attention to a Florida sex scandal that could become grist for political trouble in the 2016 Presidential campaign.
The new legal filings allege that federal prosecutors in Florida repeatedly and intentionally violated the rights of dozens of teenage sex abuse victims by secretly negotiating an extraordinarily lenient deal with a wealthy Palm Beach financier known in the past to have socialized with powerful business and political figures -- including former President Bill Clinton and current GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
Prosecutors went to great lengths to keep secret the non-prosecution agreement reached in 2007 with Jeffrey Epstein, attorneys for the victims allege, because of the strong objection they would have faced from victims of Epsteins abuse, and because of the public criticism that would have resulted from allowing a politically-connected billionaire who had sexually abused more than 30 minor girls to escape ... with only a county court jail sentence.
Throughout the negotiations -- and for nearly a year after the agreement was signed -- the victims were kept in the dark, their attorneys said, strung along as government lawyers promised victims they were still investigating even long after they had cut Epstein an indulgent deal.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/victims-feds-hid-sweetheart-deal-sex-offender-deep/story?id=36843144
LiberalArkie
(15,705 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,705 posts)Everyone said, "nah. It will be decided a long time before."
Wilms
(26,795 posts)yourout
(7,526 posts)We have two very different justice systems based on income.
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)Andy823
(11,495 posts)The allegations starte in 2005 and the agreement was reached in 2007, so that was during the Bush years. I wonder if those prosecutors would have been appointed by Bush, and if Bush's AG had any knowledge of the non-prosectuion agreement?
AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)Unfortunately money buys silence.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)can do whatever they want.
Sienna86
(2,148 posts)Need to read more e about this.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)how this was hidden away because they didn't want to cause trouble for a billionaire, political figure and who knows for sure who.
Thanks MSM for doing such investigative work over the years...not.
Disgusting.
creatives4innovation
(98 posts)I first heard about this in the British media with regard to Prince Andrew's involvement. It was said that a prosecution was unlikely because he would have diplomatic immunity. It's a filthy mess.
scottie55
(1,400 posts)And all yer problems go away!
Anyone interested in change here?
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)creatives4innovation
(98 posts)A deposition of Dershowitz from October last year contained testimony on Bill Clinton. Here's some background: Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaires Sex Jet
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)This is about pedophile rings used to induct members of both political parties and the fields of law, finance and the military to blackmail those involved. They all essentially blackmail each other so no one steps out of line or else the video comes out. Sandusky was sacrificed but many many more are involved. A FEDERAL DA disappeared with his car found in a lake with the hard drive stripped from his computer after he hid in a closet and heard Sandusky confess to one of his victims mothers. The Governor who was the Attorney General of PA at that time blew the whole thing off and said DA Gricar just decided to run away from home. And the Feds??? Of course they did nothing because their bosses are involved as they always are.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)wheniwasincongress
(1,307 posts)knowing full well that Hillary wanted to run for President.
scottie55
(1,400 posts)There is more swamp here than we have sump pumps for.
I really doubt Bubba had anything to do with this.
This was all Bush, and his pack of....
Vinca
(50,248 posts)It makes you wonder. A leopard doesn't change its spots.
rafeh1
(385 posts)Where the prime directive is innocent until you run out of money. Money = innocence
bemildred
(90,061 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)Further proof that pardons are exclusively for sale.