Jeffrey Epstein’s Attorneys Make Extraordinary Request for Judicial Inquest Into Their Client’s Apparent Murder; Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein Accusers Speak out in Court
By Newsweek. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday took one of their final steps in winding down the sprawling criminal case against Jeffrey E. Epstein, the Manhattan financier and alleged sex trafficker who died by apparent suicide earlier this month.
Epstein’s defense attorneys, however, sought to prolong the case’s remaining proceedings, asking U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman to use the court’s “inherent authority” to probe the death of their former client.
The defense also threw already rampant suspicion surrounding Epstein’s untimely death into further uncertainty when they alleged that they have evidence suggestive of an incident “far more consistent with assault” than suicide. . .
Defense counsel further alleged that the medical examiner who concluded that suicide was the final cause of death only saw nine minutes of footage from one security camera to help arrive at that determination.
Attorneys representing the government asked the judge to terminate the proceedings, saying that the current legal landscape leaves them little if any room to continue a case after the pre-trial death of a charged individual. Attorneys for Epstein asked Berman to formally investigate Epstein’s apparent suicide, though there are already several announced probes into the matter originating from the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (Read more from “Jeffrey Epstein’s Attorneys Make Extraordinary Request for Judicial Inquest Into Their Client’s Apparent Murder” HERE)
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Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein Accusers Speak out in Court
By The New York Post. The hearing Tuesday to dismiss federal sex-trafficking charges against dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein looked and sounded more like a trial, with 23 women — including more than a dozen new accusers — sharing their stories of abuse at Epstein’s hands.
“I was nothing more than a teenage prostitute. I was his slave,” wrote one Epstein victim, who was a 16-year-old virgin when she says Epstein raped her.
The woman’s letter was read in court by her lawyer, Gloria Allred. “He washed my entire body in the shower and said, ‘If you are not a virgin, I will kill you,’ ” she said. . .
“I am still mad, concerned and confused about how he committed suicide and escaped responsibility once again,” one woman said, referring to the wrist-slap plea deal he copped in Florida in 2008 that let him dodge federal charges — and continue preying on victims. (Read more from “Dozens of Jeffrey Epstein Accusers Speak out in Court” HERE)
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