Epstein case: Department of Justice publishes new paperwork | EUROtoday

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The Justice Department launched tens of 1000’s of pages of paperwork simply earlier than Christmas, together with images, interview transcripts, name logs and court docket paperwork. Those data included beforehand printed flight logs displaying that Donald Trump flew on Epstein’s personal jet within the Nineteen Nineties, earlier than the 2 drifted aside, and a number of other images of the previous president Bill Clinton. Neither Trump nor Clinton have been publicly charged with crimes in reference to Epstein, and each have mentioned they didn’t know the billionaire was abusing underage ladies.

Also launched final month had been transcripts of testimony from FBI brokers reporting on a number of younger ladies who mentioned they had been paid to carry out sexual acts with Epstein.

The Epstein case

In 2008 and 2009, Epstein served jail time in Florida after pleading responsible to soliciting sexual providers from minors. At the time, investigators had gathered proof that Epstein had sexually abused underage ladies in his residence Palm Beachhowever the U.S. Attorney’s Office agreed to not prosecute him in trade for his responsible plea to misdemeanor prices.

In 2021, a federal jury in New York convicted Maxwell for intercourse trafficking, for allegedly serving to recruit a few of Epstein’s underage victims. He is presently serving one sentenced to twenty years in a jail camp in Texas, regardless that he continues to keep up his innocence.

US prosecutors have by no means charged anybody else within the investigation into Epstein’s abuse, however one of many victims, Virginia Roberts Giuffreacknowledged that, when she was 17 and 18, the American financier had engaged her in sexual encounters with quite a few well-known politicians, enterprise tycoons and lecturers. They all denied his accusations.