Criminal Law
As bad as Jeffrey Epstein was, the US justice system was even more corrupt and depraved.
Donald Trump tried very hard to block release of the Epstein files. When that didn’t work, he hoped starting a new war every week might distract America.
As I survey the internet this past week, I’d say he failed miserably. Everywhere I look, the dirty laundry from the most recent Epstein files drop is on display. Not only are Donald Trump’s almost 5,000 appearances in the files getting a lot of airplay, half of his cabinet appointments are also in the files, along with many of his billionaire buddies. Some of the stuff coming out is really tawdry; some downright disgusting. (Joe Rogan, Kim Iversen, the Young Turks, and the Breaking Points crew have all been working overtime.)
For me, there’s only one issue which has received inadequate attention, and that it the incredible miscarriage of justice which occurred in Epstein’s first trial in 2008
It is striking how many of the most recent Epstein files are from the period between 2009 and 2019. An entire second cohort of under-age girls had their young lives ruined during this decade. And all the rich and famous men who appear in the files during this decade knew exactly who Jeffrey Epstein was, so they have no excuses.
The only reason all those files exist - and all those lives were blighted - is because the American legal system was criminally negligent and corrupt in 2008.
The front-line cops had done their job well. They had signed statements from 36 women saying they had been forced into sex with Epstein so young it was statutory rape.
If you or I had had 36 charges of statutory rape filed against us, I’m pretty certain we’d be spending the rest of our lives behind bars.
Jeffrey Epstein served only 13 months in a country club of a jail - which he was then able to leave each day to go to ‘work’. Even more incredibly, Epstein’s plea agreement required that none of the rich and famous within Epstein’s circle of rapists and abusers would ever be charged. Talk about a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card!
How could this happen? Alexander Acosta, the prosecutor in the case, claimed in public hearings that the case was handled as it was because he was told “Epstein belonged to intelligence.”
Acosta’s explanation raises way more questions than it answers. There is considerable evidence within the released files that Epstein was an agent for Mossad. What was the CIA doing protecting an Israeli spy? (An Israeli spy who was actively gathering information which could be used to blackmail American politicians and business leaders!)
And, if Epstein was, in fact, an American spy, why the hell was he gathering compromising information on American politicians?
And even if Epstein served some purpose for the US Intelligence Services that was so important to America’s national security that it was worth destroying the lives of hundreds of young women, how does that justify letting off Scot-free all those billionaires who also raped and abused young women?
Bill Clinton has suggested the only way to really put the Epstein files behind us is to have a full set of public hearings. I agree.
Epstein wasn’t the only criminal here.
A whole slew of very rich men should be going to jail.
At minimum, Alexander Acosta should be disbarred. Maybe he should also be in jail. Who in the US Government ordered that Jeffrey Epstein be given a sweetheart deal? Was money involved? Was that person being blackmailed by Epstein, or by Mossad?
How did the plea deal come to include a clause that let all those billionaires off the hook? Were bribes involved? How about blackmail?
America needs to understand how Epstein’s corrupt 2008 plea deal came about, and why no-one in the system intervened to challenge it.
The Epstein saga should have ended in 2008. It was the complete and utter failure of the US legal system to deliver justice which enabled Jeffrey Epstein and his privileged cronies to continue their debauchery and depravity for a full decade more.
What happened in 2008 stank to high heaven. If it isn’t cleaned up, I’m afraid the phrase ‘criminal law’ will come to take on a whole new meaning in America.
Donald Trump wants America to move on. But there’s a swamp - or perhaps a giant, fetid cesspool - that must be drained first before any real closure is possible.
PS: The mainstream press will now try to distract by claiming that Epstein was in Putin’s pocket. Simplicius does a great job of debunking this scurrilous claim:
