They also found child porn when they executed the search warrant at his Manhattan home. Which is a crime in itself, indicates potential crimes after the plea deal. And probably points to why they’re going after him now. New victims new crimes, even if they used additional victims from back then to kick it off its likely more about investigating and proving continued abuse and trafficking. And going back over older accusations that had been left out provided the starting point for a larger investigation.
But that’s if. The impression I’ve got is that this is about newer stuff all together. The plea deal does not cover it if he kept molesting kids.
Aw guys, an island with golden domed temple and cryptic signs scattered around the geography, weird tunnels off to side doors, odd selections of strange machinery-- he’s obviously a Myst larper!
So 75% of this demonstrates that Epstein is a horrible person…but obviously we’d build our own temple. Give me a fortune, an island and immunity, you get a temple. Mine would be to J.R. “Bob” Dobbs but you’d get a temple.
It’s the difference between “this guy could have done other crimes” and “there’s no way this guy didn’t do other crimes - lots of them.”
Though it turns out he’s almost certainly not a billionaire himself, but a Trumpian-fraud who lied about everything business-related. It does sound like he was definitely connected to at least one Ponzi scheme, and had a relationship with Deutsche Bank, which put up with a lot in terms of money laundering, but still thought his finances were suspicious:
I sincerely have doubts that there’s actually a medieval-era lock on that door.
More correctly quoting the article:
INSIDER consulted James Both, a contractor and engineer based in Chicago, he first pointed to the wooden door. “It’s styled like what you might see on a castle, with what appears to be a reinforcing lock bar across the face,” he said. “What makes it peculiar is that if you wanted to keep people out, the bar would be placed inside the building, [but the] locking bar appears to be placed on the outside … as if it were intended to lock people in.”
Key word here is styled, just like:
Finally, the exterior seems to incorporate an optical illusion, to create the impression that the exterior windows and door are set within carved flanges.
That’s right, the exterior walls are flat and the windows and door are flush. The whole structure is just someone’s dream of what a ‘temple’ or whatever might look like. My bet is that the ‘lock’ or ‘bar’ on the door is just a surface feature or paint applied with no actual thought to how such a thing would actually be placed or operate in a real context. In other words: Typical lack of attention to detail from the McMansion school of designers.
Yeah, that does seem to be the unanswered question that more and more people are asking: where does this creep get his money from? Is it money laundering? Is it a Ponzi scheme? An illusion? A bit of everything?
The fact that this creep is not President Biff makes it more possible we may find out. It’s a similar story, but with President Biff the blood in the water was negated by the fact that he sits atop of a rickety structure that Fox and McConnell built, and they cannot risk losing Biff yet.
Exactly. This kind of tabloidy gossipy speculation about rich-dude architectural follies imho only serves as a distraction of what’s actually going on.
I’d rather have the media concentrate on the actual horrible things he did and why he got away with it up till now. Having kitchy pompous sheds is not really interesting, I guess most millionaire islands have stuff like that. You need to spend that black money on something after all.
One of my lecturers at university had a sideline in designing sundials (from an astronomical rather than aesthetic point of view). While most of his clients were public buildings, colleges and the like, he also worked for private individuals- including, if his stories are to be believed, at least one mafioso in Italy. I wonder if he did this one too.
I’ve seen a couple of TV people launch into why this isn’t double jeopardy. I think there are a couple reasons but simplest one is that the Florida case was a state case for sexual assault and the New York case is a federal case for human trafficking. It’s not the same crime.
That’s so nuts to me. Sometimes I hear some position the government is defending and I think - just stop defending it. Just let it go. This isn’t like when someone is suing you for money or prosecuting you for a crime and it is obvious you will defend yourself. The government can just say, “Yeah, judge got it right, we’ll comply” instead of trying to get to an unjust conclusion.
It’s the same case. So no double jeopardy. The plea deal was invalidated. So it’s not a second case, but the same case. Victims were not informed, as required by law, beforehand of the deal. So it’s not a second case – or double jeopardy – but the same case.
I used to work at Kinko’s, the paper shredder we had there definitely weighed more then 53 lbs. If it was bought for an office environment by someone with a lot of money (or trying to put on airs about money) then fuck yeah, get the photocopier size shredder that destroys staples and large paperclips. Using one of those large shredders is fun too. Most of us have the shitty trashcan model from Costco that can maybe handle your 4 page Charter bill. But shoving a 25 page document in a big shredder and not worrying about the staples really hits that Beavis & Buthead portion of your brain.
Sure, he could have been using it to shred records of raping children, but a 53 lbs shredder in itself isn’t that weird.
We’re all guessing about what nefarious purpose he was up to. Meanwhile, Epstein is just being a normal human like, “Will it shred this phonebook? How about a dinner plate?”
