Pedophile millionaire Jeffrey Epstein dodged harsh sentence by ratting out Bear Stearns execs

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/13/jeffr...-to-ues-all-girls-school-blocks-from-mansion/

Jeffrey Epstein donated $15k to UES all-girls school blocks from mansion
By Ben Feuerherd
July 13, 2019 | 2:03am | Updated July 13, 2019 | 3:02am

The Hewitt School on the Upper East Side recieved a donation from Jeffrey Epstein (inset)
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Multi-millionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein donated significant sums of money to several schools in the US and abroad — including to an exclusive all-girls school blocks from his Upper East Side mansion, an analysis of his finances found.

Epstein donated the $15,000 gift to the prestigious Hewitt School on East 75th Street in 2016 — years after he pleaded guilty to in 2008 to soliciting a minor for prostitution, The Associated Press reported.

It’s not clear why Epstein singled out the school for the gift , but administrators said the money was returned several months ago after they learned it was connected to him.

In other donations, Epstein doled out $35,000 to the Junior Tennis Champions Center in Maryland and $25,000 to the Ecole du Bel-Air grade school in Haiti.

Epstein was arrested in New Jersey earlier this week on sex trafficking charges after the Miami Herald published a series of articles examining a sweetheart deal he struck with federal prosecutors in 2008.

Authorities who raided his Upper East Side mansion this week found a trove of pictures of naked underage girls in a safe in the house, prosecutors said.

Manhattan prosecutors also revealed on Friday that Epstein has already tried to buy the silence of two potential witnesses against him.

The former hedge fund manager doled out a total of at least $350,000 to two people last year after reports about him were published in the Herald, federal prosecutors said in new court *papers.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/12/jeffrey-epstein-spent-350k-to-influence-potential-witnesses-feds/

Jeffrey Epstein spent $350K to ‘influence’ potential witnesses: feds
By Andrew Denney and Emily Saul
July 12, 2019 | 6:40pm | Updated

Millionaire convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has already tried to buy the silence of two potential witnesses against him, Manhattan prosecutors charged Friday.

The former hedge fund manager — who was arrested last week on child sex trafficking charges — doled out a total of at least $350,000 to two people last year, federal prosecutors said in new court *papers.

The money — $250,000 in one case and $100,000 in the other — was secretly funneled to the potential witnesses, identified in the documents as “possible co-conspirator,’’ at around the same time the Miami Herald unleashed a series of exposés about the perverted financier, the feds said.

The person who was wired the $250,000 was identified as “one of the defendant’s employees.”

“Neither of these payments appears to be recurring or repeating during the approximately five years of bank records available to the government,’’ the documents said.

“This course of action, and in particular its timing, suggests the defendant was attempting to further influence co-conspirators who might provide information against him.’’

And “Epstein’s efforts to influence witnesses continue to this day,” the prosecutors added.

The feds pointed to an allegation that Epstein — whose fortune was estimated at $500 million in court papers — tried to pay off one of his victims to keep her quiet during a 2006 investigation into his pedophilia.

The prosecutors cite a police report from Palm Beach County, Fla., that states that an associate of Epstein tracked down the young woman while she was home from college on spring break, telling her that Epstein would pay for her silence.

The Epstein associate told the girl, “Those who help him will be compensated and those who hurt him will be dealt with,” *according to the police *report.

In another Palm Beach police report, one of Epstein’s victims told police that he had hired private investigators who were terrorizing her family — in one case driving one of her parents off the road during a car pursuit.

Details of the alleged payoffs and harassment surfaced as prosecutors insisted that Epstein should continue to be held without bail.

He is currently at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan — three cell doors down from drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo’’ Guzman — awaiting another bail hearing next week.

In the court papers filed Friday, prosecutors argued Epstein should not be released, in part, because his primary residence in the United States is a private island in the US Virgin Islands.

“The defendant’s primary residence is a private island in the US Virgin Islands, a place where any sort of meaningful supervision would be all but impossible,” they wrote.

The island is near the tropical community of St. Thomas — where locals never welcomed the pervy billionaire anyway.

“Everybody called it ‘Pedophile Island,’” Kevin Goodrich, a charter boat operator from St. Thomas, said.

“It’s our dark corner,” he added.

Epstein’s island features a stone mansion with a turquoise-colored roof, as well as several other structures.

There was also a maids’ quarters and another square-shaped mansion that features a gold dome.

The ‘temple’ on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island.
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Workers believed the temple-like structure was used as a music room and was built with acoustic walls.

Epstein’s former employees on the island described on odd working environment to Bloomberg News — including that they were not supposed to be seen by the pedophile billionaire when he was there.

One of the former workers told Bloomberg that he remembered two closely-guarded security boxes in the main residence.

One, a steel safe in Epstein’s office, was protected by a level of security that “suggested it contained much more than just money,” the worker remembered.

Epstein’s lawyers have offered to put up his $77 million, 21,000-square-foot Upper East Side townhouse — where the feds say he sexually abused minor girls and kept a trove of suspected child porn — and his private plane as collateral if he gets bail.

They also say Epstein would wear an ankle monitor if he gets home detention, as well as install surveillance cameras and ground his private jet.

Epstein is even willing to pay for around-the-clock armed security to keep an eye on him, his lawyers said.

Epstein’s lawyers did not return messages seeking comment.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/15/feds-find-diamonds-fake-saudi-passport-at-epsteins-townhouse/

Feds find diamonds, fake passport at Epstein’s townhouse
By Andrew Denney and Kate Sheehy
July 15, 2019 | 11:48am | Updated July 15, 2019 | 12:49pm

The feds found dozens of diamonds, piles of cash and a fake passport with Jeffrey Epstein’s photo stashed in a safe at the convicted pedophile’s Upper East Side townhouse, they said Monday.

Prosecutors told a Manhattan federal judge about the newly revealed contents of the safe — which also held a trove of lewd photos of young women — as they argued against giving Epstein bail at least partly because of his immense financial means.

Assistant US Attorney Alex Rossmiller called the accused sex trafficker’s financial disclosure form for bail “cursory,” noting that it failed to mention the “piles of cash, dozens of diamonds” in his now-notorious home safe.

“The defendant’s financial disclosure should alarm the court,” Rossmiller said.

In addition to lots more dough and valuable items including art that hadn’t been accounted for, prosecutors said, investigators discovered an expired phony passport in Epstein’s mansion that was supposedly issued in the 1980s. It had his photo on it, although the name wasn’t Epstein’s, and it listed as his residence an address in Saudi Arabia.

Rossmiller also noted that Epstein has more than $100 million alone in a single account — among at least $500 million in holdings. The suspect has already used hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to bribe potential witnesses to keep their mouths shut about his crimes, prosecutors have said.

Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman agreed Monday that Epstein’s one-page financial affidavit was “cursory” as he delayed a decision on whether to grant the suspect bail until Thursday.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/15/jeffrey-epstein-bail-hearing-delayed-as-more-accusers-come-forward/

Jeffrey Epstein bail ruling delayed as more accusers come forward
By Andrew Denney
July 15, 2019 | 10:54am | Updated July 15, 2019 | 11:17am

Jeffrey Epstein will have to cool his heels at least a little longer in jail — as Manhattan prosecutors revealed Monday that more alleged victims have already stepped forward since his arrest earlier this month.

“The evidence is already significantly stronger — and getting stronger every day,” Assistant US Attorney Alex Rossmiller told Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman.

Epstein, already a convicted pedophile, had hoped the jurist would rule in his favor on his bail request in his latest case Monday.

But Berman said he wants to hear from some of Epstein’s victims — as soon as Monday — and have the former hedge-fund manager’s financials looked over further before deciding on whether to free him until his trial.

The judge said he plans to rule on bail Thursday.

Federal prosecutors, in arguing that the 66-year-old pervert should stay at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, said they have had more of his victims come forward to report crimes since his arrest.

Rossmiller added authorities are still investigating the stash of “many, many, many” photos of women and girls “who appear to be young” that was found in Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion.

At least one of the females photographed nude or semi-nude has come forward as a victim, the prosecutor said.

Epstein — who is charged with sex trafficking and has been accused of abusing and raping underage girls — appeared to listen intently during the proceeding, folding his hands under his chin.

He entered court in a navy blue jail uniform, walking quickly to his seat at the defense table. He wore rectangular-framed reading glasses, and as soon as the proceeding started, began hurriedly scribbling notes to a lawyer on his left, Martin Weinberg.

Prosecutors have said Epstein is trying to bribe potential witnesses to keep quiet about his crimes.

Rossmiller said prosecutors only learned late last week about $350,000 in payments that they say he made to potential witnesses.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/15/judge-cites-post-revealing-nypd-failure-to-enforce-epstein-check-ins/

Judge cites Post revealing NYPD failure to enforce Epstein check-ins
By Andrew Denney
July 15, 2019 | 4:57pm

The Manhattan federal judge overseeing Jeffrey Epstein’s case Monday cited an exclusive Post report revealing how the pedophile hadn’t ever checked in with the NYPD as required for sex offenders.

As Epstein’s lawyers tried to argue why their client should be released on bail in the new sex-trafficking case against him — saying he’s been “careful” in his obligations as an already-convicted offender — Judge Richard Berman said he read The Post’s story and it indicates differently.

“The thrust of that story … was that Mr. Epstein was not in compliance in New York state,” Berman told Epstein’s lawyer, Martin Weinberg.

As The Post reported last week, Epstein was ordered by another Manhattan judge in 2011 — after his conviction on solicitation-of-a-minor charges in Florida — to check in with the cops here every 90 days. Epstein has an Upper East Side manse.

The NYPD, when asked by The Post why it never followed up on Epstein failing to report in, claimed that Epstein wasn’t required to come to them — because he maintains that his primary residence is in the Virgin Islands.

A judge had already rejected that argument years ago.

Weinberg, responding to Berman’s mentioning of The Post article, said Epstein had received “no notice that he’s been in violation, despite the recent media.’’

The lawyer’s reply was particularly noteworthy — because he wasn’t arguing that Epstein wasn’t in violation, only that he hadn’t been notified of the issue.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/15/court-papers-reveal-how-much-jeffrey-epstein-actually-is-worth/

Court papers reveal how much Jeffrey Epstein is actually worth
By Andrew Denney
July 15, 2019 | 8:06pm | Updated July 16, 2019 | 8:27am

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is hardly a billionaire, according to the financial disclosure form his lawyers filed in seeking bail for him.

The single-page document had been kept under seal away from the public until the Manhattan federal judge overseeing Epstein’s sex-trafficking case released it Monday, dismissing it as “cursory.”

Epstein lists in the filing that he has:

Cash: $56,547,773
Fixed income: $14,304,679
Equities: $112,679,138
Hedge funds and private equity: $194,986,301
Properties including: 9 E. 71st St., Manhattan, worth $55,931,000; 49 Zorro Ranch Road, Stanley, NM, $17,246,208; 358 El Brillo Way, Palm Beach, Fla., $12,380,209; 22 Avenue Foch, Paris, France, $8,672,823; Great St. James Island in the Virgin Islands, $22,498,600, and Little St. James Island, also there, $63,874,223.

The total assets listed are $559,120,954.

The feds are arguing that Epstein — who is accused of sex trafficking — shouldn’t be given bail pending trial because of the uber-connected former moneyman’s potential ability to buy his way to freedom.

Epstein’s lawyers did not respond to a request for comment.

Meanwhile, the judge in the case, Richard Berman, also included in the file released Monday a transcript from a 2011 hearing before Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Ruth Pickholz, in which Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Gaffney, then the deputy chief of the Manhattan DA’s Sex Crimes Unit, actually argued for Epstein to get a more lenient sex-offender classification.

Pickholz was taken aback by the argument, according to the documents, which have been public.

“I have to tell you, I’m a little overwhelmed because I’ve never seen the prosecutor’s office do something like this,” the judge said. “I have never seen it.”

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/16/jeffr...port-to-protect-himself-from-plane-hijacking/

Jeffrey Epstein claims he got fake passport to protect himself from plane hijacking
By Andrew Denney
July 16, 2019 | 6:54pm | Updated July 16, 2019 | 7:55pm

Jeffrey Epstein says he got a fake passport listing his residence as Saudi Arabia in the 1980s because he is Jewish — and that it could have offered him some protection if he ever fell victim to an airline hijacking.

Attorneys for the multimillionaire pedophile, who is charged anew with child sex trafficking in Manhattan federal court, say in papers filed Tuesday that he obtained the passport from Austria, that he never used it and that it expired 32 years ago.

“The passport was for personal protection in the event of travel to dangerous areas, only to be presented to potential kidnappers, hijackers or terrorists should violent episodes occur,” the attorneys say.

The feds say that they found the fake passport, which contains a photo that resembles Epstein but lists a different name, in a home safe when they raided his massive Upper East Side townhouse. In a new filing submitted on Tuesday, prosecutors also say that the search turned up 48 loose diamond stones ranging in size from 1 karat to 2.38 karats, as well as a large diamond ring and $70,000 in cash.

Manhattan federal court Judge Richard Berman, who presides over the case, entered a summary of Epstein’s assets into the public docket. According to the summary, Epstein is not a billionaire but worth more than $550 million, though prosecutors say that figure did not count the diamonds and cash that were found in the raid.

The feds also say that they found kiddie porn during the raid.

Epstein is due back in court on Thursday, when Berman said he will issue a ruling on Epstein’s request to be kept on home detention while he awaits trial. He has offered to put up the Manhattan townhouse, estimated to be worth $77 million, and his private jet as collateral.

In the new papers that his attorneys submitted on Tuesday, Epstein’s attorneys also say that he will “agree to any monetary condition” to get bail.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/16/jeffrey-epsteins-porn-stash-flourished-thanks-to-nypd-lawyer/

Jeffrey Epstein’s porn stash flourished thanks to NYPD: lawyer
By Reuven Fenton and Kate Sheehy
July 16, 2019 | 2:22pm | Updated July 16, 2019 | 2:56pm

A lawyer for one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers ripped the NYPD on Tuesday for failing to monitor the Level 3 sex offender — and said the department’s flub may have contributed to his sick porn stash.

“I’m really, really surprised that the NYPD let him get away with this, knowing he’s a level 3 sex offender,’’ said lawyer Brad Edwards — referring to the debacle exclusively reported in The Post in which the police department failed to follow up on a court order requiring Epstein to report in every 90 days.

Asked what effect the NYPD’s botched actions might have caused, the lawyer responded by noting the massive trove of porn — including some allegedly involving children — in the multimillionaire pedophile’s Upper East Side home.

“For one, I doubt that he would have been keeping these pornographic trophies, which is what it seems to be, of thousands of photos of young women in his home if somebody was checking on him and he felt there was some sort of scrutiny and accountability of being a registered sex offender,’’ Edwards said.

The lawyer added that for Epstein, “Sex was his full-time job.”

“One of the questions I’ve received many, many times is what Jeffrey Epstein actually did on a daily basis. What I’m telling you is, what he did on a daily basis is engage in these types of sex acts with young adults and children,’’ Edwards said.

“I’m also telling you that his employees’ sole responsibility was to accumulate as many of these people for those sexual perversions as they possibly could. That’s what he did.

“What he did to make his money, I don’t know. What he did legitimately outside of engaging in these sexual misdeeds, I don’t know — nor do any of the witnesses that we have ever deposed.”

The NYPD insisted to The Post in a statement, “Jeffrey Epstein was never in violation of the judge’s order as he legally changed his residency and was monitored in his new jurisdiction in compliance with” the law.

But a judge already considered the residency argument by Epstein’s lawyer in 2011 — and rejected it, ruling that the pedophile would still have to adhere to the requirements for Level 3 sex offenders, considered the worst and most at risk of repeating their crimes, while in New York state.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/18/letting-jeffrey-epstein-loose-could-lead-to-new-victims-judge/

Letting Jeffrey Epstein loose could lead to new victims: judge
By Andrew Denney, Reuven Fenton and Bruce Golding
July 18, 2019 | 10:35pm

Jeffrey Epstein doesn’t just pose a huge risk of jumping bail — he also has “uncontrollable” urges that make him a serious danger to underage girls and young women, a judge said Thursday.

During a brief hearing in Manhattan federal court, the multimillionaire financier and convicted pedophile was denied his request to be released on bail with confinement to his $77 million Upper East Side mansion while he awaits trial on child sex-trafficking charges.

Judge Richard Berman later issued a written ruling in which he said letting Epstein loose could create “new victims” because Epstein’s perverted sexual appetite “is not likely to have abated or been successfully suppressed.”

“Mr. Epstein’s alleged excessive attraction to sexual conduct with or in the presence of minor girls — which is said to include his soliciting and receiving massages from young girls and young women perhaps as many as four times a day — appears to be uncontrollable,” Berman wrote.

Earlier, Epstein — who’s been jailed since his July 6 arrest — kept his hands folded on the table in front of him and showed no emotion as Berman denied his bail request and summarized the reasons for his decision.

Berman noted the “compelling testimony” at a Monday hearing by accusers Annie Farmer and Courtney Wild, the latter of whom called Epstein “a scary person to have walking the streets.” Neither woman was in court Thursday.

Berman also cited “evidence of intimidation and threats, and compensation paid to potential witnesses,” as well as questions about whether Epstein “has been compliant in legal obligations as a registered sex offender.”

During Monday’s hearing, the judge noted a front-page, July 11 Post report that Epstein never checked in with the NYPD, despite a 2011 order by Manhattan state Supreme Court Justice Ruth Pickholz requiring him to do so every 90 days.

In his written ruling, Berman said he’d also read a report in Wednesday’s Post which quoted a lawyer for several accusers who alleged that Epstein had sex with young women while on work release from a Florida jail.

Epstein’s defense lawyers declined to comment following the court hearing.

Prosecutors argued that Epstein posed an “extreme” risk of flight, citing his immense wealth, which they said included “piles of cash” and “dozens of diamonds” stashed in a locked safe in his townhouse.

The feds also said they found a trove of photos of young women in the safe, as well as a passport that bore Epstein’s image but a different name and listed his address as in Saudi Arabia.

Epstein was indicted in the wake of an award-winning series of stories last year by the Miami Herald that revealed how he scored a sweetheart plea bargain in 2008 following similar allegations in Florida.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/21/jeffrey-epstein-lost-interest-when-girls-lost-their-braces-detective/

Jeffrey Epstein lost interest when girls ‘lost their braces’: detective
By Bruce Golding
July 21, 2019 | 1:42pm | Updated July 21, 2019 | 1:59pm

Jeffrey Epstein lost all sexual interest in his alleged victims as soon as they “lost their braces and their pubescent look,” according to a former cop who’s been investigating the convicted pedophile for more than a decade.

But Epstein still found a way for the “too old” teens to help satisfy his perverted appetite — by finding “younger girls” who were more his type, ex-detective Michael Fisten told CNN.

“Once these girls lost their braces and their pubescent look and started becoming 16-years old or 17-years old, they were too old for him, so then he started using them as recruiters to bring the younger girls,” he said.

Fisten began investigating the multimillionaire financier in 2009 for lawyer Brad Edwards, who represents several women who claim Epstein abused them when they were underage.

“I started going out and interviewing witnesses that became victims,” Fisten told CNN. “One after another, three girls turned into four girls, turned into five, six, seven and so on…I couldn’t help but think that this could’ve been my daughter or your daughter or my next-door neighbor’s daughter.”

In the interview, Fisten alleged that Epstein hired “former Miami cops” to try to frighten his accusers into silence.

“He paid an extremely large retainer to them and all their job to do was to follow the girls around and intimidate them,” he said.

Fisten also claimed that in recent years, Epstein traveled with two young women who procured girls for him — and that he and Edwards gave the women’s names and other information to federal authorities.

Last week, Edwards publicly alleged that Epstein had sex with at least one young woman while on work release as part of a sweetheart plea bargain in Florida on prostitution charges, one involving a minor.

In response to Edwards’ claims, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office said Friday that it was investigating to see if the deputies who monitored Epstein “violated any agency rules and regulations.”

Epstein, 66, was busted July 6 on child sex-trafficking charges and last week was ordered held without bail by a judge who ruled that his “excessive attraction” to underage girls “appears to be uncontrollable.”

Epstein has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers didn’t return a request for comment Sunday.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/jailed-ex-cop-questioned-about-jeffrey-epsteins-injuries/

Jailed ‘killer cop’ questioned about Jeffrey Epstein’s injuries
By Larry Celona and Bruce Golding
July 25, 2019 | 12:40pm | Updated July 25, 2019 | 1:21pm

Metropolitan Correctional Center, where financier Jeffrey Epstein is being held while awaiting trial
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A hulking inmate was questioned about the neck injuries suffered by Jeffrey Epstein in a Lower Manhattan lockup, law enforcement sources told The Post on Thursday.

Former Briarcliff Manor cop Nicholas Tartaglione, who’s awaiting trial in four drug-related killings, told investigators that he didn’t know what happened to the convicted pedophile and that he wasn’t responsible, the sources said.

Epstein, 66, was found nearly unconscious and sprawled on the floor of his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Tuesday, sources have said previously.

The multimillionaire financier was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he received treatment before being returned to the infamous jail and placed on suicide watch, sources said.

Authorities are investigating whether Epstein tried to kill himself, was attacked or faked a suicide attempt in a bid to get transferred out of the MCC, where he’s being held without bail on conspiracy and child sex-trafficking charges.

Earlier this month, The Post exclusively revealed that Epstein was being housed in the “10 South” unit, a block of six cells known as the “terror wing” because it’s where the city’s most dangerous federal inmates, including alleged terrorists, are held.

Tartaglione’s lawyer, Bruce Barket, said the beefy ex-cop, 51, and Epstein were housed “in the same unit and doing well,” according to NBC News 4, which first reported the questioning of Tartaglione.

Both Epstein and Tartaglione — who faces the death penalty if convicted — have been complaining about harsh conditions inside the MCC, including flooding, rodents and bad food, Barket told News 4.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/epstein-case-feds-also-investigating-uncharged-individuals/

Epstein case: Feds also investigating ‘uncharged individuals’
By Andrew Denney and Bruce Golding
July 25, 2019 | 6:05pm | Updated July 25, 2019 | 6:29pm

Manhattan federal prosecutors are conducting an “ongoing investigation of uncharged individuals” connected to Jeffrey Epstein, according to court papers filed Thursday.

The probe was revealed in a court filing that seeks to ensure that evidence in the case against Epstein remains secret.

Prosecutors said they planned to give lawyers for the convicted pedophile “certain documents and materials” containing both “confidential” and “highly confidential” information that shouldn’t be made public.

But they asked Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman to first endorse a nine-page order prohibiting the lawyers from sharing the information with anyone not directly involved in Epstein’s case.

The reasons include the possibility that releasing it “would impede, if prematurely disclosed, the Government’s ongoing investigation of uncharged individuals,” according to the Manhattan federal court filing.

None of those people were identified.

The “highly confidential” information “contains images of nude or partially-nude individuals” that will only be made available to the defense “under the protection of law enforcement officers or employees,” according to court papers.

Prosecutors have said that investigators seized a massive trove of photos of nude photos – including of at least one girl who was underage at the time – during a raid on Epstein’s $77 million Upper East Side townhouse.

Some of the porn was found stashed in a locked safe, along with diamonds, cash and an Austrian passport that Epstein allegedly used to travel during the 1980s to the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Saudi Arabia.

The order filed on Thursday has already been signed by Epstein lawyer Martin Weinberg, who agreed to the prosecution’s terms.

Epstein — who suffered injuries to his neck in a jailhouse incident that remains under investigation — is charged with conspiracy and child sex-trafficking in the alleged sex abuse of dozens of underage girls at his Upper East Side townhouse and waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, between 2002 and 2005.

His indictment alleges that the multimillionaire financier was assisted by at least three unidentified employees who scheduled his “sexual encounters with minor victims” under the guise of massages for which he paid the girls several hundred dollars each.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/26/jeffrey-epsteins-pilots-slapped-with-grand-jury-subpoenas/

Jeffrey Epstein’s pilots hit with subpoenas after refusing to cooperate with feds
By Larry Celona, Andrew Denney and Bruce Golding
July 26, 2019 | 2:26pm | Updated

Jeffrey Epstein’s pilots were slapped with federal grand jury subpoenas after refusing to cooperate with authorities, The Post has learned.

The feds want to know who was on board Epstein’s plane during certain flights, but the pilots “lawyered up” and wouldn’t answer questions when they were contacted, law-enforcement sources said Friday.

The pilots were served with the subpoenas earlier this month, following the multimillionaire financier’s July 6 arrest on conspiracy and child sex trafficking charges, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported on the subpoenas.

Revelation of the subpoenas came a day after a Manhattan federal court filing disclosed that prosecutors were conducting an “ongoing investigation of uncharged individuals” tied to the convicted pedophile.

The Journal didn’t identify the pilots who were subpoenaed but said a lawyer for one confirmed receipt.

Epstein, 66, was busted at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey following a private-plane flight from Paris.

Companies controlled by Epstein own “at least two private jets in active service, at least one of which is capable of intercontinental travel,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing earlier this month.

In response, Epstein’s lawyers said he sold one of the planes in June and was willing to ground the other if granted bail – a request that a judge denied last week.

One plane – a Boeing 727 nicknamed the “Lolita Express” – was customized to carry 29 passengers and was outfitted with a queen-sized bed, a red velvet sofa and chairs, and a shower, according to The Sun.

Epstein has employed four pilots and flight engineers – David Rodgers, Larry Visoski, Larry Morrison and Bill Hammond – according to the Journal, which cited information from civil lawsuits filed against Epstein by alleged sex abuse victims.

None of the four responded to requests for comment from The Post.

Visoski formerly maintained an Instagram account that he used to document his travels, but he deleted it last week, according to the Washington Examiner.

Visoski, who used the handle “Capt Big Dawg,” posted photos from across the country and the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein owns a private island called “Little St. John,” as well as the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico and the Middle East, the Examiner said.

Epstein didn’t appear or get mentioned in any of the posts, but there were photos of his planes and helicopters, the Examiner said.

He’s being held at the infamous Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, where officials on Tuesday found him nearly unconscious and with bruises on his neck, sources have said.

Cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione, a hulking ex-cop who faces the death penalty in four drug-related killings, denied any involvement, sources said.

 

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/27/feds-...-ocean-charity-over-links-to-jeffrey-epstein/

Feds probe socialite’s mysterious ocean ‘charity’ over links to Jeffrey Epstein
By Isabel Vincent
July 27, 2019 | 9:47pm | Updated

A mysterious do-nothing charity founded by Jeffrey Epstein’s socialite gal pal is being investigated by the FBI for possible links to the convicted pedophile, The Post has learned.

The TerraMar Project was incorporated in London and Delaware in 2012, purportedly to raise awareness of environmental and other issues facing the oceans, and exclusively funded by hundreds of thousands in loans by heiress Ghislaine Maxwell, public filings show.

Maxwell, 57, the daughter of the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell, has been accused by three women of procuring girls to work as sex slaves for convicted pedophile Epstein, according to court filings. Two of the women said both Maxwell and Epstein sexually assaulted them. She has not been charged with a crime.

Maxwell was listed as president of TerraMar, and her Upper East Side home was its official office. She pumped $283,429 into it between 2012 and 2017. In that time, the so-called charity gave out a total of $874 in grants.

Between 2002 and 2005, Epstein used his private jets — dubbed the “Lolita Express” — to shuttle girls for sex between his estates in New York, Palm Beach, Fla., and the Virgin Islands, according to prosecutors.

One girl, aged 19 at the time — whose name appears on the manifests of two Epstein flights in February 2005 from JFK Airport to Columbus, Ohio, and Palm Beach — became a member of the founding board of directors of the Maxwell charity seven years later.

She also lived in a three-bedroom, $430,000 home in Teaneck, NJ, that is linked in public documents to Maxwell, although neighbors told The Post they never saw Maxwell at the property.

The Post is withholding her name. It is not known what she was doing on those Epstein flights. She did not return calls for comment.

An FBI source would not say if the charity probe is focused on the question of whether it served as a slush fund to pay hush money to Epstein’s young victims.

Members of TerraMar’s blue-ribbon board included Westchester businessman and UN official Amir Dossal, “Dead Poets Society” producer Steven Haft, and Calvo-Platero, Maxwell’s best friend from Oxford.

Ariadne Calvo-PlateroAurora Rose/ Patrick McMullan


Katie Vaughan-Edwards and Ariadne Calvo-Platero, Maxwell’s socialite friends from London, were also listed in the original incorporation documents.

Multiple calls and e-mails to the charity’s past and current board members were not returned.

Larry Coben, a NYC-based founding director, told The Post he couldn’t remember being connected to the charity and hung up the phone.

Jeffrey Pagliuca, a Colorado-based criminal defense lawyer who is representing Maxwell, did not return The Post’s calls and e-mails.

After The Post began making inquiries this month, the charity blocked its public website and made it password-accessible. Last week, the home page included this message: “The TerraMar Project is sad to announce that it will cease operations.” No reason was given.

The nonprofit’s latest federal tax filings show only $583 in total contributions in 2017 and expenses of $18,462. They also show the charity owes Maxwell $549,093 in loan repayments.

Epstein, 66, was arrested this month for allegedly sexually abusing “dozens” of minor girls.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2019/07/29/jeffr...ay-before-he-was-found-injured-on-cell-floor/

Jeffrey Epstein hit with lawsuit a day before he was found injured in jail
By Bruce Golding and Priscilla DeGregory
July 29, 2019 | 8:09pm | Updated

Jeffrey Epstein got slapped with legal papers in a Lower Manhattan lock-up one day before he was found sprawled in his cell with injuries to his neck, a court filing revealed Monday.

A city official personally handed Epstein a draft lawsuit and related documents filed against him by childhood rape accuser Jennifer Araoz, according to a certificate of service filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Deputy Sheriff Qin Zhang described the convicted pedophile and multimillionaire financier as a 5-foot-10, 240-pound, light-skinned man with white hair, who appeared his 66 years of age, the filing said.

Zhang delivered the papers to Epstein around 10:15 a.m. on July 22 at 150 Park Row, which is the address for the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center.

The following day, Epstein – who’s being held without bail on conspiracy and child sex trafficking charges – was found nearly unconscious on the floor of his cell, law enforcement sources have said.

Based on the appearance of the marks on his neck, investigators suspect he was choked by someone else, and they questioned his cellmate, a hulking ex-cop awaiting a death penalty trial in four drug-related killings upstate, the sources said.

The inmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, 51, denies any wrongdoing, his lawyer has said.

Araoz, 32, claims Epstein sexually abused and raped her in his Upper East Side townhouse in 2002 and 2003, beginning when she was just 14 years old.

Araoz is seeking to depose Epstein to learn the identity of the young woman who allegedly recruited her outside the Talent Unlimited High School and took part in his “grooming” of Araoz “to be sexually assaulted by Epstein.”

“Now that he has gotten notice and has been properly served with a petition he or his lawyer will now have to appear on Aug. 27 to explain to the court why she shouldn’t order his deposition and why she shouldn’t order him to produce all the discovery we asked for,” said Araoz’s lawyer, Daniel Kaiser.

Araoz plans to sue both Epstein and the recruiter but has to wait until Aug. 14 under terms of the state Child Victims Act, according to court papers.

The law, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed in February, lifted a statute of limitations that barred victims of childhood sexual abuse from suing their attackers more than three years after turning 18.

The new law will give victims up to age 55 one year to file suit, regardless of when the alleged attacks occurred.

Court records don’t show whether Epstein has hired a lawyer to represent him against Araoz’s claims, and his criminal defense lawyers didn’t return a request for comment.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2019/07/31/jeffr...-new-mexico-ranch-into-a-baby-making-factory/

Jeffrey Epstein wanted to turn New Mexico ranch into a baby-making factory
By Bruce Golding
July 31, 2019 | 5:39pm | Updated July 31, 2019 | 6:27pm

Jeffrey Epstein dreamed of improving humanity by using his sperm to impregnate scores of women at his New Mexico ranch — and also wanted his penis and head frozen after death so they could eventually be reanimated :crazy:, according to a report Wednesday.

Two award-winning scientists and an adviser to large companies and wealthy individuals told the New York Times that the since-disgraced multimillionaire financier shared his plan for a baby-making factory in the desert on multiple occasions starting in the early 2000s.

Computer scientist and writer Jaron Lanier also told the Times that he once spoke to a scientist who related how Epstein’s goal was to have 20 women at a time impregnated at his 33,000-square-foot Zorro Ranch outside Santa Fe.

Lanier, who’s been dubbed the “godfather of virtual reality,” said he spoke to the scientist, who told him she worked at NASA, during a dinner party at Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse.

Lanier said the scientist told him that Epstein was inspired by the Repository for Germinal Choice, a controversial sperm bank stocked by high-achieving white males – reportedly including as many as five Nobel Prize winners – that operated in California from 1979 to 1999.

Lanier told the Times he suspected that Epstein – a convicted pedophile who was busted July 6 on child sex trafficking charges and has pleaded not guilty – used his dinner parties to screen attractive women with impressive academic credentials as potential mothers for his children.

The Times report didn’t make clear whether Epstein planned to have sex with the women or rely on artificial insemination, but said there’s no evidence he made good on the ego-driven scheme.

Epstein, 66, was also fascinated with the unproven science of cryogenics, in which people’s bodies or body parts are frozen at very low temperatures so they can be brought back to life in the future, the Times said.

A source described as an adherent of “transhumanism” – the belief that human evolution can be furthered through science and technology – told the paper that Epstein described wanting to have his penis and head cryogenically preserved.

Epstein cultivated relationships with elite scientists – including the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and the late Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, who discovered the quark – to pursue his interests in controlled breeding and other fringe theories, the Times said.

Those relationships continued even after Epstein struck a controversial 2008 plea bargain over allegations he had sexually abused scores of underage girls at his waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, the Times said, and in 2011 an Epstein charity gave $20,000 to the Worldwide Transhumanist Association, now known as Humanity Plus.

The since-shuttered charity also donated $100,000 to pay the salary of Humanity Plus vice chairman Ben Goertzel, who told the Times in an email that “I have no desire to talk about Epstein right now.”

“The stuff I’m reading about him in the papers is pretty disturbing and goes way beyond what I thought his misdoings and kinks were. Yecch,” he added.

Epstein’s defense lawyers didn’t return requests for comment, the Times said.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2019/08/03/jeffr...lawyers-charities-after-sweetheart-plea-deal/

Jeffrey Epstein lavished cash on lawyers’ charities after sweetheart plea deal
By Isabel Vincent
August 3, 2019 | 10:18pm

Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was so thrilled with the sweetheart plea deal his legal dream team scored for him in Florida, that he threw in an added bonus — nearly $1 million worth of donations to their favorite charities, including a tony Manhattan prep school.

In 2007, while two Manhattan-based criminal defense lawyers were finalizing Epstein’s deal, which included 13 months in a Palm Beach County jail and freedom from federal criminal prosecution, Epstein was writing checks to their charities.

Epstein’s C.O.U.Q. non-profit donated $500,000 in 2007 to the Ramaz School on the Upper East Side where attorney Jay Lefkowitz was a prominent member of the school’s Orthodox Jewish community.

Epstein’s private foundation also donated $250,000 to the Washington-based Foundation for Criminal Justice where another attorney, Gerald Lefcourt, was a board member in 2007, public filings show.

Ramaz School
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Both of the contributions were one-time donations from the charity, which was founded in 1998 by Epstein and former gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of the late British media mogul Robert Maxwell who has been accused by three women of procuring girls to work as sex slaves for Epstein.

It’s not clear what prompted the donations, and neither Lecourt nor Lefkowitz returned The Post’s emails and calls seeking comment.

A former senior advisor to both Presidents Bush, Lefkowitz’s three children attended the school. Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, who served as principal of the school between 1966 and 2015, married Lefkowitz and his wife Elena Neuman in 1991.

Neuman, a documentary filmmaker, has made films for the Ramaz School, according to her LinkedIn profile. The couple donated between $25,000 to $99,000 to the school’s annual campaign in 2010, according to the Ramaz Magazine.

In a letter sent to Ramaz parents, school officials said they did not know that the 2007 contribution came from Epstein and were only recently made aware of it.

“This gift opportunity was brought to Ramaz by a community member and was used to establish an educational program,” said the letter, which did not identify the “community member.”

A spokeswoman for Ramaz refused comment.

Calls to the Foundation for Criminal Justice, a charity that promotes the work of criminal defense lawyers, did not return requests for comment.

Epstein’s lenient plea deal saw him spending 13 months in jail where he was allowed to return to his office during the day. He had to register as a sex offender and pay restitution to a handful of victims. Epstein was arrested last month in New Jersey and charged with sexually abusing minors at homes in Florida and Manhattan between 2002 and 2005.

 

[Ensis]

Epstein is nuts; I will breathe a sigh of relief when he expires--one way or another. He can take that Kike, Henry Kissinger with him.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2019/08/07/victo...jeffrey-epstein-misappropriated-46m-from-him/

Victoria’s Secret mogul Leslie Wexner says Jeffrey Epstein swiped millions
By Tamar Lapin
August 7, 2019 | 11:12pm | Updated

Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein
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The billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret said Wednesday that Jeffrey Epstein rth: “misappropriated” more than $46 million of his personal fortune while serving as his money manager more than a decade ago, according to a report.

In a letter to his foundation, Leslie Wexner rth:, the founder and chief executive of L Brands Inc., said the missing cash was discovered after he decided to sever ties with the convicted pedophile in 2007, The Wall Street Journal reported.

“We discovered that he had misappropriated vast sums of money from me and my family,” Wexner, 81, wrote in the letter. “This was, frankly, a tremendous shock, even though it clearly pales in comparison to the unthinkable allegations against him now.”

The close relationship between the men spans two decades. In 1991, Wexner granted Epstein power of attorney, allowing him to have sweeping control over the mogul’s finances and legal matters.

The financier made more than $200 million from Wexner, according to the Journal.

But in 2007, when allegations began surfacing in Florida that Epstein had sexually abused underage girls, his benefactor began to distance himself.

In January 2008, Epstein transferred $46 million worth of investments to a Wexner charitable fund, tax records obtained by the paper show.

That cash was only a slice of the funds that Epstein misappropriated, Wexner said.

“All of that money—every dollar of it—was originally Wexner family money,” the businessman wrote.

Epstein in 2008 pleaded guilty to less severe state charges of soliciting prostitution from one minor, even though the feds found 36 girls he’d potentially molested. Under a cushy deal, Epstein was sentenced to 13 months in jail but was allowed out on a near-daily basis.

Epstein, 66, was arrested last month for allegedly sex trafficking dozens of underage girls — some as young as 14 — between 2002 and 2005.

Prosecutors say he ran a sex ring in his Palm Beach and Manhattan homes, including an Upper East Side mansion formerly owned by Wexner.

Epstein has pleaded not guilty and is in federal custody. If convicted, he faces up to 45 years in prison.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2019/08/09/jeffrey-epstein-court-documents-are-a-step-closer-to-going-public/

Court unseals trove of records related to Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophile case
By Emily Saul
August 9, 2019 | 11:48am | Updated August 9, 2019 | 12:57pm


A Manhattan federal appeals court Friday unsealed a trove of records related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The 2,000 pages of documents are from a defamation case that could contain potentially bombshell information about sexual abuse by “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well‐known Prime Minister and other world leaders,” according to court papers.

The defamation lawsuit was originally brought by Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre against the pervert financier’s alleged madame, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Last month, an appeals panel acknowledged that the secret documents have the potential to “damage privacy and reputation” but said that wasn’t a reason to keep them sealed.

Giuffre, née Roberts, sued the British socialite after Maxwell publicity stated that Giuffre was lying about repeated sex abuse by Epstein.

Numerous accusers have claimed Maxwell helped Epstein recruit and groom underage girls for erotic massages and various sex acts, according to authorities and court documents.

The 66-year-old moneyman faced charges in 2008 of soliciting an underage girl for sex — but the federal investigation was nixed at the state level, and Epstein got off with a wrist-slap sentence that landed him behind bars for just 13 months.

The accused serial pervert was arrested last month on sex trafficking charges in Manhattan and is awaiting trial.