Jeffrey Epstein: Perversion of Justice

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[noblepa]

We had a case in my town, in which a high school boy, who had just passed his 18th birthday had sex with his girlfriend, who was a couple of months shy of hers. The difference in their ages is only a few months. They were in the same high school grade. Now he has to register as a sex offender wherever he goes.

This is ridiculous and a case where the law should not be applied absolutely, but with discretion and in context.

Its been a few years since this happened, but I believe that I read at the time, that the statute was written in such a way that the judge had no discretion in the sentencing. The boy was (just barely) legally an adult.

FWIW, I believe that there are several levels of registration in Ohio, with the most severe being that of "Sexual Predator". The boy in question only had to register for the lowest level and I don't remember if it was for the rest of his life or a fixed period.

In either case, the sentence is stupid.

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I haven't ever seen anything by this channel before, but it seems to be a well balanced take on things. I'm sure there is probably quite a bit of mischaracterization of the documents coming out, but I've been pleasantly surprised that much of what I have found has not been the overblown trash I was expecting.

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Simon Whistler narrating the story. He mentions Julie Brown's excellent investigative work and how she was able to get one of the detectives to give some of the inside details of the investigation, including actual investigative reports. This is a decent overview of it all.

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It sure looks like Donald Trump was disguised as 'Doe 174' in the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents

Analysis by Jacob Shamsian
Jan 9, 2024, 4:24 AM CET

• A federal judge unsealed the names of nearly 200 "Does" affiliated with Jeffrey Epstein.
  Based on an analysis of court records, Donald Trump is Doe 174.
  Trump may have fought to keep his name redacted in the documents before the judge unsealed it.

Over the past week, thousands of pages of court documents in a Jeffrey Epstein-linked lawsuit have been unsealed.

The documents identify about 170 people whose names have come up in a legal battle between Virginia Giuffre, one of his accusers, and Ghislaine Maxwell, his former girlfriend who in 2021 was convicted of trafficking girls to him for sex.

Those roughly 170 Epstein associates had names under seal for different reasons — some were his wealthy friends, some were his victims, and some were people whose names were merely mentioned in passing. They were identified as a "J. Doe" in arguments over whether their names should be made public or remain redacted.

Donald Trump is one of them. But until now, it wasn't clear which of the nearly 200 Does — as enumerated by US District Judge Loretta Preska in a 50-page list — he actually was.

An exhaustive review of the documents by Business Insider points to one no-longer-anonymous Doe who checks all the boxes: Doe 174.

In deciding whether to make the names on the list public, Preska weighed any privacy rights the Does might have against the public's right to access judicial documents. The newly unsealed documents include new excerpts of deposition transcripts and other legal filings where Trump's name is now revealed.

Preska's list identifies Doe 174 as a person whose "association with Epstein and Maxwell has been widely reported in the media already, and his or her name came up during Maxwell's public criminal trial."




https://www.businessinsider.com/donald- ... ?r=US&IR=T

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Interview with Julie K Brown, author of the book that was the subject of the original postings in this thread. She is an award winning journalist and author and gained the trust of the lead detective (the other main detective had passed away) and he gave her a treasure trove of information for her book. Among the details he gave her was the detail that detectives had received house logs from one of Epstein's "house men" along with the information that Epstein had set up hidden video equipment which the employees always believed he had set up for the purpose of being able to blackmail men and women who were also involved in his sex crimes. The house logs corroborated several of the girls' stories about which men they were forced to have sex with on which days. Turned out the logs matched the girls' information and became the basis for a judge being willing to give the detectives a search warrant to collect the video equipment and hard drives. However, Epstein was tipped off about the search warrant and had already landed at Teterboro airport when the police showed up at his home to serve the warrant. The computers were all stripped of the hard drives, the video equipment dangling from their previous hiding places. The detectives said the scene appeared to them to have been very quickly dismantled, computer parts scattered all over the place, opened up, parts even fallen on the floor and every single hard drive gone. So, they never got his video tapes, which his employees gave sworn statements would contain evidence to corroborate the girls' claims at to what happened to them, when, and with whom.

I haven't listened to this whole thing, but so far she is talking about the sweetheart deal that Alex Acosta gave Epstein. And how devastated the girls were when they found out Epstein got this deal. Most of them were so disgusted they settled, signing NDA's which mean we will never really truly know the identities of all the culprits. People will make mountains and accusations about anyone "named" in these depositions, but most of the names are just lawyers asking "did Epstein know so and so". My understanding is that depositions are attempts to get information that may get you other information, so just asking if Epstein knows so and so doesn't mean so and so have been named by any of the victims as having been a part of the abuse.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker
A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender.

BY DHRUV MEHROTRA AND DELL CAMERON
MAR 28, 2024 7:00 AM

NEARLY 200 MOBILE devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious “pedophile island” in the years prior to his death left an invisible trail of data pointing back to their own homes and offices. Maps of these visitations generated by a troubled international data broker with defense industry ties, discovered last week by WIRED, document the numerous trips of wealthy and influential individuals seemingly undeterred by Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender.

The data amassed by Near Intelligence, a location data broker roiled by allegations of mismanagement and fraud, reveals with high precision the residences of many guests of Little Saint James, a United States Virgin Islands property where Epstein is accused of having groomed, assaulted, and trafficked countless women and girls.

Some girls, prosecutors say, were as young as 14. The former attorney general of the US Virgin Islands alleged that girls as young as 12 were trafficked to Epstein by those within his elite social circle.

The coordinates that Near Intelligence collected and left exposed online pinpoint locations to within a few centimeters of space. Visitors were tracked as they moved from the Ritz-Carlton on neighboring St. Thomas Island, for instance, to a specific dock at the American Yacht Harbor—a marina once co-owned by Epstein that hosts an “impressive array” of pleasure boats and mega-yachts. The data pinpointed their movements as they were transported to Epstein’s dock on Little St. James, revealing the exact routes taken to the island.

The tracking continued after they arrived. From inside Epstein's enigmatic waterfront temple to the pristine beaches, pools, and cabanas scattered across his 71-acres of prime archipelagic real estate, the data compiled by Near captures the movements of scores of people who sojourned at Little St. James as early as July 2016. The recorded surveillance concludes on July 6, 2019—the day of Epstein’s final arrest.

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Eleven years earlier, the disgraced financier was sentenced to 18 months in jail after a guilty plea in 2008 for soliciting and procuring a minor engaged in prostitution, securing a secret “sweetheart” deal to avoid any federal charges. Renewed interest in the case, notably prompted by a Miami Herald investigation, spawned new charges against Epstein, who was apprehended at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport in July 2019. A raid of Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse by federal agents yielded a cache of child sexual abuse material, nearly 50 individually cut diamonds, and a fraudulent Saudia Arabian passport, which had expired. He reportedly died by suicide a month later while incarcerated at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a federal detention facility that closed shortly after Epstein’s death.

Ghislaine Maxwell, former British socialite and an Epstein accomplice, was convicted in 2021 on five counts including sexual trafficking of children by force. Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire, tracked to a million-dollar home by federal agents using location data pulled from her cell phone.

Little is known publicly about Epstein’s activities in the decade prior to his 2019 arrest. The majority of women who came forward that year to accuse the convicted pedophile in court say they were assaulted in the ’90s and early 2000s.

Now, however, 11,279 coordinates obtained by WIRED show not only a flood of traffic to Epstein’s island property—nearly a decade after his conviction as a sex offender—but also point to as many as 166 locations throughout the US where Near Intelligence infers that visitors to Little St. James likely lived and worked. The cache also points to cities in Ukraine, the Cayman Islands, and Australia, among others.

Near Intelligence, for example, tracked devices visiting Little St. James from locations in 80 cities crisscrossing 26 US states and territories, with Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, Michigan, and New York topping the list. The coordinates point to mansions in gated communities in Michigan and Florida; homes in Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts; a nightclub in Miami; and the sidewalk across the street from Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The coordinates also point to various Epstein properties beyond Little St. James, including his 8,000-acre New Mexico ranch and a waterfront mansion on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach, where prosecutors said in an indictment that Epstein trafficked numerous “minor girls” for the purposes of molesting and abusing them. Near’s data is notably missing any locations in Europe, where citizens are safeguarded by comprehensive privacy laws.

Near Intelligence’s maps of Epstein’s island reveal in stark detail the precision surveillance that data brokers can achieve with the aid of loose privacy restrictions under US law. The firm, which has roots in Singapore and Bengaluru, India, sources its location data from advertising exchanges—companies that quietly interact with billions of devices as users browse the web and move about the world.



continues at https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-eps ... oker-leak/

[keith]

Bull shit meter is buzzing and red flags are waving:

pinpoint locations to within a few centimeters of space

Not possible. Even military drones cannot be targeted that closely, certainly not civilian phones. There is this thing called 'relativity' that a gentleman named Einstein reported about that must be taken into consideration and it just doesn't allow for that precision by a couple of orders of magnitude.

[Sam the Centipede]

Bull shit meter is buzzing and red flags are waving:

pinpoint locations to within a few centimeters of space

Not possible. Even military drones cannot be targeted that closely, certainly not civilian phones. There is this thing called 'relativity' that a gentleman named Einstein reported about that must be taken into consideration and it just doesn't allow for that precision by a couple of orders of magnitude.

I wondered if it was the author not appreciating the distinction between accuracy and precision? Innumeracy is a pervasive problem in this world of ours!

If a latitude is expressed in degrees with 7 decimal places, e.g. 33.1234567°, as perhaps it might be in their data files, that can express a position to a precision of about 1 cm*.

But, as you say, the measured numbers are not accurate to a centimetre, it's probably 33.1234567°±0.00001° (that's a guess), a wobble of metres or more.

Not sure where you think relativity comes into it: GPS computations account for relativistic effects. The limitation is probably the deliberate accuracy reduction in the fuzzy public GPS signal, plus general accuracy loss from obstructions, interference, physics, etc.

Some positional info could conceivably come from wifi signal location, but I don't know how much that is used in these contexts. It won't include triangulation of the mobile signal from towers of course.
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* I don't guarantee my numbers are correct!

[keith]

My assertion about relativity comes from the fact that gps satellites do suffer from relativistic effects. Plus the earth is presessing centimeter by centimeter constantly. The combination means its impossible to produce the claimed precision.

A few years ago Australia have to fix all its datum points or those new fangled autonomous automobiles would start to drift off cliff.

Everybody has to reset their datum points periodically to keep up with presessing coordinates.