Jeffrey Epstein, 62, along with his buddies, reportedly abused/exploited at least 34 underage girls for from 1999 to 2007. Some of the girls were as young as 13. In 2008, in what amounted to hundreds of sex crimes, Epstein’s charges were reduced to only two—soliciting prostitution and procuring the services of an underage prostitute. The sex offender copped a plea deal and received a mere 18-month sentence, which was reduced to 13 months, which was padded with 12-hour days in a nice office on a work release program. The remaining five months were spent on house arrest in his luxury mansion. Must have been tough.
Fred Grimm with The Miami Herald reports Epstein’s ridiculously meek sentence was during a time when other less affluent sex offenders were “forced to live like apocalyptic trolls beneath Miami’s Julia Tuttle Causeway without water, toilets, electricity.”
In 2008, Fort Lauderdale lawyer Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, a former federal judge who now teaches law at the University of Utah, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of two of Epstein’s victims against the U.S. attorney’s office alleging Epstein’s crimes also included sex trafficking of children by fraud. The case has been pending for eight years.
In January of 2015, the suit and scandal was revived, as Edwards and Cassel brought in three more victims, one who claimed Maxwell and Epstein kept her as a “sex slave.” From 1999 until 2002 she said he forced her to have sex with “many other powerful men, including numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders.” The victim said she finally escaped to an unspecified foreign country. In the 2015 motion, Edwards and Cassel allege the well-known criminal defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz, 77, and Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, were also involved in the international human trafficking sex ring.
Trevor Aronson with the non-profit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting writes that Dershowitz denied the charges:
“There’s absolutely no kernel of truth to this story,” said Dershowitz, who represented Epstein. “I don’t know this woman. I’ve never been in the same place with her. She’s made up the whole story completely from whole cloth.”
Dershowitz, the accused 77-year-old infamous attorney of OJ Simpson and Mike Tyson, added he intends to file complaints against Edwards and Cassel.
“This is a disbarrable offense, and they will be disbarred,” Dershowitz said. “They will rue the day they ever made this false charge against me.”
Last week, a 57-page motion was filed:
The failure to notify the victims has been at the crux of a federal lawsuit filed in West Palm Beach against the U.S. attorney’s office in 2008 by two of the young women, identified as Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2. On Wednesday, their attorneys filed a 57-page motion demanding a summary judgment in their favor.
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marrathe will be deciding on the case.
It’s hard to predict the outcome. Currently, the original sex offender, Jeffery Espying, is frolicking about the globe in the company of young beautiful women. You know, because he can. But this case is not about the money—it’s about THE MONEY. More will be revealed.