Victims: Feds Hid 'Sweetheart' Deal for Sex Offender With Deep Political Ties

[Eugene]

Source: ABC News

Victims: Feds Hid 'Sweetheart' Deal for Sex Offender With Deep Political Ties

By JAMES HILL MATTHEW MOSK
Feb 11, 2016, 4:10 PM ET

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 Epstein’s 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.

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[Wilms]

1. Yep. A potential Bimbo Eruption waiting to happen.

Thanks, Bill.

[MagickMuffin]

2. K&R Off to the Greatest

Protect the Billionaires, because ya know they are above the law.

And looky at the roster of attorneys he has in his arsenal:

Hundreds of pages of newly-disclosed correspondence between federal prosecutors and Epstein’s dream team of defense lawyers, including Jay Lefkowitz, Kenneth Starr, Alan Dershowitz, Roy Black, and Lefcourt, provide an inside look at Epstein’s efforts to forestall the federal prosecution and at the effort to conceal the resulting deal, despite repeated acknowledgements by government lawyers that they were legally required to inform the victims.

[Kurovski]

3. .

[Justice]

4. Criticism should be levied against the Bush prosecutors who negotiated the plea deal with Epstein

not against Trump or Clinton who had nothing to do with it. Certainly not against Hillary.

Grasping for straws with this one.

[jwirr]

6. Until we know more but this should be a FULL investigation.

The other story I saw was one in which Bill Clinton flew with Epstein on his airplane "the Lolita" to a business meeting involving the Clinton foundation.

No damn cover ups.

[bvar22]

5. John Edwards was right.

There ARE "Two Americas".

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R

[lpbk2713]

8. If he's a Palm Beach billionaire he's probably on good terms with OxyRush

They are neighbors and they seem to have similar interests.

[ViseGrip]

9. Epstein's little black book had 13 different phone numbers for Bill Clinton!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/bill-clinton/bill-clinton-and-jeffrey-epstein-908671


Some of the younger ones, in their court cases saw Bill at the home in the Virgin Islands. Prince Andrew was dumb enough to be photographed with one of the young ones, at the home. This scandal is very, very real. This is why, I don't support the Clinton's ever going back to the White House.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/epstein-prince-andrew-accuser-not-sex-slave-ex-pals-article-1.2133175


Then they say two of the older whores (social fixers) were photographed at Chelsea's wedding near Bill! Now come ON!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2906981/Bill-Clinton-pictured-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-social-fixer-Chelsea-s-wedding.html

[Baitball Blogger]

10. That's exactly what happens in Florida.

Turns everybody's American Dream into a nightmare.

[Rex]

11. Two sets of laws, one for the working class and one for the ruling class.

Can't be any more obvious by now.