On the same day Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on arrival at a New Jersey airporton sex trafficking charges, federal agents bashed in the door of his $77 million Manhattan mansion and seized evidence to aid in his prosecution. But the multimillionaire’s Virgin Islands hideaway, where the wealthy hedge fund manager allegedly trafficked girls for sex and entertained politicians, businessmen and scientists, seemingly remained untouched by the law.
That changed Monday.
FBI agents — accompanied by Customs personnel, local police and New York City officers, according to a Virgin Islands source — fanned out in golf carts across Epstein’s estate on Little St. James Island. They scooped up evidence just two days after Epstein was found dead in his jail cell of an apparent suicide while in federal custody in Manhattan.
The raid underscores that the criminal investigation into Epstein will continue despite his death while awaiting trial in New York City. Ultimately, prosecutors could expose an alleged sex trafficking conspiracy with tentacles across the financier’s vast real estate holdings, including opulent homes in New York, Palm Beach, New Mexico and Paris.
Federal prosecutors had said in an indictment that they intended to confiscate Epstein’s properties if they were used to facilitate the sexual abuse of minors. That hasn’t changed, although Epstein’s death before he could be brought to trial may complicate matters.
The secluded spit of land, sometimes referred to as “pedophile island” in the aftermath of Epstein’s initial prosecution in 2007-2008, has hosted Epstein’s rich and famous friends and associates over the years in addition to his ever-present entourage of young women.
Epstein, who developed an intense interest in scientific discovery, also invited renowned scientists to join him there for conferences.
He bought the island for $7.95 million in 1998, and built an extravagant estate with a 24,000-square-foot private home, swimming pools, cabanas and other structures on a 70-acre swath of oceanfront land studded with palm trees.
Any evidence seized in the raid could prove key to prosecutors as they seek to press charges against Epstein’s associates, as Attorney General William Barr promised they will. The earlier raid of Epstein’s Manhattan home following his arrest yielded a passport under a fake name, assorted diamonds, nude and semi-nude photographs of possible minors and other evidence suggesting a complex criminal enterprise.
It was not clear why authorities waited more than a month between Epstein’s arrest and the raid on his island home.
Epstein, 66, was found dead Saturday morning in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City, one day after a federal court unsealed nearly 2,000 pages of Epstein-related documents that offered sordid details of the alleged trafficking of girls by the financier and his ex-girlfriend and purported madam, Ghislaine Maxwell.
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I have questions..
Did he do this all in one sitting?
Do you use different needles?
How long did this take?
The attention to detail is amazing 😲😲
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Flight data places Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet on Arabian Peninsula on the eve of the 2016 election
Epstein’s private jet took a flight from Paris, France to a mysterious destination in the Middle East the night before the 2016 election, and then returned to Paris two days later:
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Hong Kong is off the chain. Protesters AIN’T playing.
Candidates who have qualified for the September debates in both polling and fundraising:
Joe Biden
Cory Booker
Pete Buttigieg
Kamala Harris
Amy Klobuchar
Beto O’Rourke
Bernie Sanders
Elizabeth Warren
Andrew Yanghttps://t.co/8vz8SQr7D1
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) August 13, 2019
Told you when he was nominated…
I read the people that I trusted to give me an honest opinion of Barr’s nomination, and they told me:
There hasn’t been a Black person that Barr didn’t believe DIDN’T belong in jail….
So, THIS is no shock:
Found out from watching LarryO that the ‘ACTING’ head of the Federal Prisons has, in fact, never worked in a prison. He’s the typical mediocre White man, who has gone from job to job, with little qualifications for them…continuing to Fail Up.
Epstein death may put alleged co-conspirators in new legal peril
Rachel Maddow looks at questions raised about whether the non-prosecution agreement for Jeffrey Epstein and any co-conspirators he may have had, as well as the non-disclosure agreements Epstein has his employees sign, are still valid after Epstein’s death or whether prosecutors will now have new avenues of inquiry as a result.
Open questions, alleged accomplices keep Epstein case ongoing
Julie K. Brown, investigative reporter for the Miami Herald, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged victims reacted to news of his death and how the Epstein investigation is likely to continue as open questions and alleged co-conspirators remain.
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Truth 👏👏
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Yes 👏
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Trump guts American dream, Endangered Species Act both in one day
Rachel Maddow reports on the Donald Trump administration announcing its intention to weaken the Endangered Species Act while at the same time announcing new standards for aspiring immigrants to meet that include having private insurance and having a high credit score.
Michelle Obama Athletic Complex opens at Whitney Young High School
By Meghan Kluth
Monday, August 12, 2019 6:36PM
I dreamed of Michelle Obama last night. We were in a store shopping and she bought me a black Capri outfit and it was so cute. I started crying. LOL!
Promoting White Racism: What Green Cards for the Rich is Really About
By Spandan
Love this :)
2019 ‘Doodle for Google’ competition winner honors mom with illustration
You get these hints of a sense of entitlement from Sanders, i.e. he feels as though that by virtue of having been the runner-up last time, he’s entitled to the nomination this time, and if he doesn’t win it, it’s only because “the media”/”the establishment” took it away from him.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 13, 2019
Bernie needs to sit his Trump-sounding @ss down somewhere and do it quick. I got sick of him and his supporters’ whining in 2016. They still seem to think Bernie is some kind of Democratic icon. They need to talk to me about this idea. He wasn’t my preferred 2016 candidate, and I haven’t moved from my 2016 decision about him. I know an entitled j@ck@ss when I see and hear one.
This thread 😠😠😠
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Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) Tweeted:
5. “appalling failures.” Now wait a minute – MCC is a federal facility and part of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Guess who’s in charge of the BOP? The DOJ as headed by Bill Barr. So MCC’s failures are Barr’s failures. Bill Barr’s rhetorical merry-go-round is never-ending. https://twitter.com/glennkirschner2/status/1161036699801014272?s=17
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Uh huh 😒🙄 🙄
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How did this moment ever happen? 🤔🤔
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Truth 👏👏
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But, in a country where they had to bulletproof the Emmit Till sign, are we really surprised?😠
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Should have been more 😠😠
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Morning Consult (@MorningConsult) Tweeted:
Our latest Democratic primary tracking data is now live:
Biden: 33%
Sanders: 20% (+1)
Warren: 14% (-1)
Harris: 9%
Buttigieg: 5% (-1)
O’Rourke: 3%
Booker: 3%
Yang: 2%
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Good Morning, Everyone 😄 😄😄