The “orgy island” case: an indictment of American justice

It looks like justice has finally caught up with Jeffrey Epstein, said Ken White in The Atlantic. Back in 2007, the well-connected billionaire financier was facing life in prison over allegations that he had paid dozens of underage girls for sexual contact and for their services in procuring other minors. But with the help of a crack legal team, he secured “the deal of the millennium”. Epstein agreed to plead guilty to lesser state charges and to spend 13 months in a county jail, during which time he was allowed to spend 12 hours a day, six days a week, on “work release” in his office. In return, federal prosecutors for the Southern District of Florida – at the time led by Alexander Acosta, who last week stepped down as…

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