With last year's jailhouse suicide of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein—the billionaire and politically influential investor who killed himself after being arrested on federal sex trafficking charges—still looming in the air, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday said that the safety of his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, must be assured after her arrest for allegedly aiding and abetting Epstein's criminal operation by grooming and recruiting underage girls for exploitation.
I hope the SDNY and all relevant parties have conducted an extensive review of the failures of Epstein’s custody to ensure Maxwell’s safety as this case bears out. https://t.co/5o5HqwJskO — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 2, 2020
According to the New York Times:
In an indictment, Ms. Maxwell was accused of helping Mr. Epstein “recruit, groom and ultimately abuse” multiple girls, including one as young as 14. The arrest came nearly a year after Mr. Epstein was charged in a federal indictment with sexually exploiting and abusing dozens of underage girls at his mansion in Manhattan, his estate in Palm Beach, Fla., and other locations. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Stakes Have Never Been Higher. The nonprofit, independent journalism of Common Dreams needs your help. Our journalists are working harder than ever to bring you journalism that is essential to the survival of our democracy. But we can't do it without you. Please support our 2020 Mid-Year Campaign today:
Mr. Epstein hanged himself in August in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan, where he had been jailed pending trial on the federal sex-trafficking charges. After his death, federal prosecutors said they would continue to investigate his associates.
After Epstein's suicide last year, which a coroner ruled was not suspicious of foul play, Ocasio-Cortez was among the first demand accountability and an investigation into what happened to the powerful and influential figure.
"We need answers," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted at the time. "Lots of them."
wendylou14 on July 3rd, 2020 at 00:56 UTC »
From Wiki: Bill Barr's Daddy:
Donald Barr was headmaster of the elite Dalton School from 1964 to 1974.[10] During his time as Dalton's headmaster, Barr is alleged to have had a role in hiring Jeffrey Epstein as a math teacher despite Epstein having dropped out of college and being only 21 years old at the time.[11][12] In 1973, Donald Barr published Space Relations, a science-fiction novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who perform child sex slavery. It has been noted that Epstein's crimes are similar to the plot of Barr's novel.
marrklarr on July 2nd, 2020 at 22:02 UTC »
Pretty bad when you have to have members of Congress pretty much say, “Hey, we’re not gonna let you get away with murdering this one, so just don’t.”
jigsawmap on July 2nd, 2020 at 21:47 UTC »
Ghislaine Maxwell better not ‘commit suicide’ like Jeffrey Epstein. She needs to name names, and serve her time.