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Today at his bail hearing Jeff Epstein asked to that he be held on house arrest in his $77 million Manhattan mansion. The judge he appeared before was skeptical, and it appears that Epstein will be held without bail.
In light of Epstein's bail motion, Judge Berman's order three years ago rejecting privately funded "armed guard regime" is worth rereading in full. The request was filleted on several grounds, systemic injustice being only being one of them.
Doc: https://t.co/T92Pse1RIy pic.twitter.com/csPbB6AaBz
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 11, 2019
The 14 point Jeffrey Epstein bail proposal is available here:
These are the rest of the 14 restrictions that they propose.
"For reasons explained elsewhere, round-the-clock, privately funded security guards will virtually guarantee – not just reasonably assure – Mr. Epstein’s presence in the circumstances of this case," the memo says. pic.twitter.com/vq8uA3O7ec
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) July 11, 2019
Twitter is down for most of its users. The cause of the outage is unknown. Twitter went down just as Trump held a social media summit, leading to unfounded speculation even though many social media companies have been down over the past several weeks:
Early Wednesday, people around the globe began reporting app issues, according to DownDetector, a web service that offers a real-time overview of bugs and outages online. About 8:45 a.m. EST, thousands of Instagram users began reporting that they were having problems.
The hashtags #InstagramDown, #FacebookDown and #WhatsApp have since started trending on Twitter, a result of widespread social conversation surrounding the service interruption.
Why didn’t the SNDY charge Jeffrey Epstein under the Mann Act? Under the Mann Act, it’s unlawful to transport an underage girl through interstate travel, including on an airplane.
In a widely-publicized press conference the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced sex trafficking charges against Jeff Epstein. Epstein was charged for paying minors for massages from 2002 to 2005. Yet what was more newsworthy was the what the indictment left out.
Facts:
The indictment against Epstein does not charge anyone except Epstein, and there’s nothing to indicate that anyone who flew to Epstein’s private island has faced scrutiny.
The SDNY’s actions have all of the telltale signs of “containment.”
Because the Miami Herald and Cernovich won a civil lawsuit, leading to over 2,000 records being unsealed, it’s simply impossible for the same Feds who gave Epstein a pass years ago to continue to cover up.
The SDNY could have charged Epstein in 2002, 2003, 2004, or at anytime until today. Yet they did not file charges until the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that previously sealed records involving Jeff Epstein would become public record.
Thus they are charging him without implicating anyone else who assisted with his operation.
The indictment was a major disappointment, so we will be redoubling our efforts to ensure that no one who worked with Epstein escapes justice.
Verified Twitter is ablaze at news of Jeff Epstein’s arrest for sex trafficking, and they are dishonestly trying to pretend that Mike Cernovich didn’t file the original lawsuit leading to scrutiny regarding Epstein. Here is a quote from the Court’s opinion:
On January 19, 2017, Cernovich, an independent blogger and self‐described “popular political journalist,” moved to intervene, seeking to unseal the summary judgment record, and Dershowitz joined his motion. On April 6, 2018, after the case had settled, the Herald moved to intervene and unseal the entire docket. The District Court granted each of these motions to intervene, but denied the related requests to unseal in orders entered November 2, 2016, May 3, 2017, and August 27, 2018, respectively.
The Appellants timely appealed from each of the orders denying their respective motions to unseal. Although each Appellant seeks the release of a different set of documents, all argue that the District Court failed to analyze the documents individually or properly apply the presumption of public access to court documents. We therefore ordered that the appeals be heard in tandem and held argument on March 6, 2019. On March 11, 2019, we issued an order to show cause why we “should not unseal the summary judgment motion, including any materials filed in connection with this motion, and the District Court’s summary judgment decision.”8 The parties timely filed their responses.
On May 4, 2017, Politico published a story about the lawsuit.
Read: The one weird court case linking Trump, Clinton, and a billionaire pedophile
Julie Brown of the Miami Herald will win a Pultizer for her work on the Jeff Epstein story. She began her deep and important work in 2018. She did 10 times as much reporting as I did, and I wish her nothing but accolades.
But anyone claiming I wasn’t first to file, at considerable personal and financial risk to myself, is simply lying.
A lot of people say, “Why do you care who gets credit?”
Those people are called losers who never put their own skin in the game.
In the real world, issues like these matter, as this stuff isn’t free or inexpensive.
And going after billionaire pedophiles is the kind of stuff that gets you hurt or worse.
You can support the lawsuit here.
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