So I'm watching "Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich" on Netflix

[CatWoman]

and I'm like, "what a fucking pig!!!"

He destroyed, IMHO, the lives of hundreds of young girls.

He had his very own adolescent prostitute ring, and the girls recruited one another.

Yet there was always some sleazebag he could turn to to keep him out of trouble.

I'm about an hour into the documentary and I'm simply floored.

I really had no idea how immoral and evil this man was. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[katmondoo]

1. I watched it last week, truly disturbing that he could get away with this for years.

Still the movie did not cover where he got his money, some sort of Ponzi scheme but really not known how he did it. A good movie!

[CatWoman]

3. i'm still trying to figure out were his wealth came from,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[tblue37]

5. Blackmail. He probably videotaped a lot of high rollers with underage girls. nt

[llmart]

31. No "probably" about it.

Some of the girls that were interviewed talked about the cameras he had everywhere and how he videotaped clients without their knowledge.

I wonder what happened to all of his stuff on the island? Where are the videotapes? If they were confiscated and/or destroyed, who did that? I do not believe that he killed himself.

[hatrack]

7. Blackmail, of course - plenty of Highs and Mightys at his little . . . get-togethers

on Epstein and all his shitbird accomplices.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. No person should be permitted to have that much

Wealth. Wealth needs to be capped. To prevent epstiens and keep them from buying our government.

[Blue_true]

20. His situation was not about wealth.

It seemed to have been about getting powerful people into compromising situations, then using that to control them. Anyone that is immoral enough can do that, no wealth required.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

32. He had to have money

To buy the island.
He would have not done so much damage for so long if he could not pay people to go along, pay people to defend him,attract other rich people and even have the opportunity to blackmail them if he was not wealthy.

[Blue_true]

35. When he started the perversion, he had no island.

All he had were men that had a taste for young girls. He was a securities trader that had no training in that field and whose coworkers questioned his competence, yet he had higher ups running interference for him -he had no island then, no private jets, all he ever really had was a knack for finding immoral men that had wealth or power or both.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

38. He used his money

To get people to look the other way,bail him out and things like that,he misused wealth. Like so many rich people do. In this country sadly wealth is power. Security traders make a shitloads more than blue collar workers .wealth got him access to power and power over girls.

[Polybius]

42. He barely had 1 billion at his peak

So many people are way richer.

[Goodheart]

4. And trump was a client.

[Blue_true]

21. He likely had some goods on Trump.

It is interesting that Barr visited the jail that he was being held at a few days before he died.

[Leghorn21]

6. And his partner in crime, Ghislaine Maxwell, is still a free woman

In the proper hands, this case would be wrapped up (and victims compensated with Epstein’s vast fortune) in about a fkn week, but shit keeps happening and justice is denied and on and on it goes

Argggh, yes, Epstein was a monstrous predator with allies helping him out all around the world

[BigMin28]

11. It was former Labor Secretary

Alex Acosta who gave Epstein the sweetheart deal, and closed down the federal investigation into his crimes. That is why he had to resign. Don't forget NY police officials who let him get away with not registering as a sex offender even though it was the law. Wealthy people get away with murder.

As a side note...Bill Barr's father gave him a teaching job at a private school, and he had no teaching degree. Cozy bunch, weren't they?

[Leghorn21]

14. Oh no, how embarrassed am I?? Wrong Alex, dammit

Yes the Barr thing and didn’t his dad write some weird book about captives and etc etc

Anyway, I’m editing my post and thanks for straightening me out!!

[BigMin28]

29. Sorry

I didn't mean to embarrass you. Acosta just seems like a such a sorry person. I want to make sure he gets credit for setting a pedophile free .

[Leghorn21]

33. Naw, don't be sorry, Big!! There's just too many players in this disgusting drama for an old gal

like moi to keep straight, is all, and I DO hate it when I’m inadvertently spreading “fake news”, so I was glad for your reminder!!

[Bev54]

8. There needs to be an overhaul of the Justice system

for this type of thing never to happen again. Too many people were obviously bought off.

[Blue_true]

22. I believe that having more female top leaders would help significantly.

What Epstein did was use the amorous nature of powerful men to get his way. He likely blackmailed a lot of powerful men. Women can get caught in the same trap, but my guess is their basic nature will make them less likely to get into such traps. Longterm, parents need to teach their sons that they don't need to win at everything or be "the man", basically show more humility and more concern for the wellbeing of others. A man that cared that young girls were being abused would have used his power to get Epstein put in prison for the rest of his life, not sleep with his victims.

[Bev54]

34. As long as they are not republican women

They seem to be just as bad as their male counterparts.

[Blue_true]

36. Yes, good point. Also, no evangelicals, most are evil. nt

[MrsCheaplaugh]

39. "Amorous nature of powerful men?"

Or you can call it what it was: child sexual assault.

[MuseRider]

9. I started that too but

am not very far yet.

Read Ronan Farrow's book too. A lot of that is about Harvey Weinstein and boy is it ever eye opening.

Nobody helps girls and women in these positions and when they do it takes forever to make it stop if it is ever stopped.

[CanonRay]

10. We need a Bobby Kennedy for Attorney General

Someone who is an attack dog.

[Blue_true]

24. We need a supremely ethical AG.

President Obama had that. Janet Reno was very ethical.

I believe that Bobby Kennedy is a bad example. Yes, he was strong on some issues like Civil Rights, but his treatment of women was not exemplary by any measure.

[pandr32]

12. Jeffrey Epstein brought Melania from Europe

He brought her for Trump. She has some missing years in between her modeling as a young teen for her mother's business and when she appeared on the arm of Epstein.

[Alex4Martinez]

13. Did you watch the Jared Kushner episode of Dirty Money?

Despicable rich punk.

https://www.conwaydailysun.com/news/local/morrell-complex-marks-grand-opening-with-ribbon-cutting/article_d96364e0-a424-11ea-b6a5-cf3811472aa2.html

[Yavin4]

15. A podcast series speculated that Epstein was an intelligence asset.

A former FBI agent and a law enforcement consultant speculated that Epstein must have been an asset for an intelligence agency because that's the only plausible explanation as to how he got away with it. He may have had evidence or was collectig evidence against a US adversary.

[Volaris]

17. It's been posited that trump was an fbi informant, as the reason he isnt on Rikers Island already

[grantcart]

18. He got away with it with bluster, money and use of private eyes etc

US intelligence doesn't use assets in the way that is alleged.

The rumor that Epstein was an intelligence asset was a rumor that he started for various reasons.

[Blue_true]

25. More likely is that he blackmailed powerful men that had a taste

for girls. As simple as that. Several articles indicated that he studied people intensely upon meeting them, men who didn't come off as ones who would have sex with girls were likely kept out of his innermost circle.

[CatWoman]

27. *CUE PRINCE ANDREW*

[Blue_true]

30. A lot more than Prince Andrew, I am afraid. nt

[Dave Starsky]

16. I was pretty much enraged from the first minute through to the end.

If you suffer from heart ailments or high blood pressure, I do not recommend you watch it.

[Blue_true]

26. I generally hate watching anything where there is grotesque

treatment of people with no hope that it will stop. Seeing children being the victims in such instances makes it far worse.

[CatWoman]

41. had to take a break from watching it

it's going to take me much longer to finish than I expected.

It's so infuriating.

[Blue_true]

19. There was one girl from eastern Eurooe whose parents "sold" her

to that pervert. She later recruited other girls.

[smirkymonkey]

23. I'm so glad he's dead.

One down. It's a start.

[Blue_true]

28. He likely took a lot of important secrets that would bring

convictions of powerful men to the grave with him. Believe me, I doubt that you are the only one that is glad that he is dead.

[Kid Berwyn]

37. AG William Barr's dad hired Epstein the dropout to teach high school.

It’s a small world...

The ‘Epstein-Barr’ Problem of New York City’s Dalton School

JERRY LAMBE
July 13th, 2019, 10:50 am

Excerpt...

Epstein, who was charged last week by federal authorities in the Southern District of New York with sex trafficking with sex-trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex-trafficking, was a 20 year old college drop-out when he was hired to teach at Dalton by the school’s headmaster Donald Barr in the mid 1970’s. Donald Barr was the father of current United States Attorney General William Barr, who is currently overseeing Epstein’s prosecution.

According to at least one former student, Dalton alums have long joked about Barr’s hiring of Epstein..

“The joke has been [that] this is the Epstein-Barr problem at Dalton, said Harry Segal, a 1974 graduate who is now a senior lecturer at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical College, in an interview with the Huffington Post. Epstein-Barr is a type of herpes virus best known as the cause of infectious mononucleosis.

Scott Spizer, who graduated in 1976, said that Epstein was most remembered for his “persistent attention” on teenage girls in the hallways, recalled a night when the young educator showed up at a party where Dalton students were drinking.

“I can remember thinking at the time, ‘This is wrong,’” Spizer said in an interview with the New York Times.

Continues...

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-epstein-barr-problem-of-new-york-citys-dalton-school/

[Books_Tea_Alone]

40. Wasn't there a suspicious massive fire on his island in 2019? n/t

[BadGimp]

43. I think the entire QANON thing was a false flag to provide cover for Trump etal

It featured Trump as the Sherrif brought in to clean out the pedo killers... brilliant!

and I think it worked masterfully...