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Disregarded, Dismissed, Denied: Epstein Survivors Seek Accountability At The FBI (Part 2)
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The letter, written on behalf of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking network, directly accuses the FBI of failing to properly investigate the scope of Epstein’s crimes. It argues that the Bureau neglected serious allegations for years, showing...
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everyone and welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to get right back to the letter sent to the DOJ and to the FBI by Maria Farmer's legal team. In 2008, the federal government agreed to a secret, controversial non prosecution agreement MPA with Epstein which only required him to plead and to rather minor state law crimes and purportedly immunized his known and unknown co conspirators. Epstein served only 13 months in a Palm Beach County Country Club county jail with daily release to his home office. Nothing in the agreement obliged them to stop engaging in sex trafficking or any other illegal activity and no consequences were imposed if he did. All the while he continued to disparage his minor victims. That many of his victims were minor was ignored. Our client Sarah Ransom, along with other survivors were trafficked at the very same time that the FBI was purportedly investigating Epstein. Although the Office of Professional Responsibility later examined actions of the Florida Federal Attorney prosecutors during that time, the actions of the FBI were not scrutinized. It's not known who in or about this time period had access to and removed Epstein's hard drives from the Palm beach home, where else those hard drives might have been located, what those hard drives contained, and where those hard drives are today. The FBI did little or nothing to prosecute Epstein for an additional decade. Why? After the slap on the wrist sentence, Epstein and others continued their criminal enterprise while the FBI did little more for for another decade. Further action against Epstein and his co conspirators was taken only after Ms. Farmer and other survivors complained again to law enforcement and engaged in substantial efforts working with non FBI law enforcement. After lengthy prosecution of federal civil litigation alleging the NPA violated the Crime Victims Rights act guarantees and a federal court determination that the failure to notify the victims and and the NPA violated the act. After numerous journalists kept reporting on the story and after numerous other private lawsuits and other efforts sought to bring this conspiracy to light and still do, it was not until approximately 2019 that the federal government finally prosecuted first Epstein and then Maxwell regarding the sex trafficking conspiracy. The FBI's repeated and continued failures, delays and inaction allowed Epstein and and others to continue their sex trafficking conspiracy for nearly a quarter of a century. Unfortunately, Ms. Farmer's 96 report regarding Epstein sex trafficking and sexually concerning images proved to be spot on. In 2019, just as Ms. Farmer had reported to the FBI years earlier, Epstein was charged with sex trafficking while sexually suggestive images of young girls were fact found in a safe in Epstein's New York mansion. According to the SDNY prosecutor's memorandum seeking to deny Epstein Bell, the 2019 search of Epstein's mansion unearthed the vast trove of lewd photographs of young looking girls, including hundreds of meticulously labeled nude pictures locked in a safe. CDs in the safe had handwritten labels including young name plus name miscellaneous nudes one and and girls picks nudes. Had law enforcement taken even minimal action to respond to Ms. Farmer and others 2006, 2008 and 2011 and other reports, more sex trafficking and likely see Sam crimes could have been avoided. It is not known if at least some of the materials, such as the label nude photographs that were locked in Epstein's New York safe were among those reported by Ms. Farmer. In 1996, law enforcement gave Epstein a hall pass for what appears to be one of the largest and longest sex trafficking and alleged CSAM conspiracies in our lifetime. Why? Curiously, Epstein was known and tied to federal authorities for decades, often in connection with suspicious and illegal activity. In 1981, Epstein reportedly left Bear Stearns abruptly after committing a possible Regulation D violation with rumors of of him engaging in other illegal activities. Epstein subsequently worked with Steve Hoffenberg at Towers Financial who was prosecuted and imprisoned for bilking investors out of over $450 million in a Ponzi scheme that was the largest financial fraud in American history. Hoffenberg, Epstein's business partner, went to jail, but not Epstein. Instead of prosecution, the 1992 U.S. state Department rented Epstein a luxurious townhouse in New York City that had been seized from the Iranian government. There has been rampant speculation for years that Epstein was a confidential informant. Only recently, a new trove of papers has revealed that William Burns, Director of the Central intelligence agency since 2021, had three meetings scheduled with Epstein. In 2014 when he was Deputy Secretary of State, Epstein told colleagues and friends that he was an intelligence asset. Epstein has been connected to many high level government and business elites who accompanied him on multiple trips on the Lolita Express to the island of Little St James and elsewhere, but these individuals have not been the subject of scrutiny. The FBI closed a forfeiture proceeding against Epstein, noting Epstein has provided information to the FBI as as agreed upon. There is strong circumstantial evidence in the public domain that Epstein's special relationship with the government explains the FBI's failure to investigate or prosecute Epstein in 1996, the special treatment he received from 2005 to 2008, and the failure to investigate the possible wrongdoing of important public officials and powerful businessmen. The Epstein Estate recently alerted a federal court that CSAM may exist in recently discovered images and videos. Only weeks ago, for the first time, Epstein CSAM concerns have come under scrutiny, finally recognized by civil litigants otherwise facing possible prosecution themselves as possible additional serious criminality by Epstein. In a stipulated motion dated March 27, 2023, as part of a lawsuit brought by Virgin Islands against JP Morgan concerning the Bank's financing of Epstein's activity, the parties advised the Federal District Court that the Epstein estate had on March 14, 2023 discover new videos and photographs the Epstein Media. Its stipulated motion dated March 27, 2023, the Epstein Estate expressly recognized the danger of serious criminal and civil liability attendant to possessing or distributing the Epstein Media which might contain csam. The Estate advised Counsel for the Government in Jane do one of its concern that some of the Epstein media might contain child sex abuse imagery. The knowing accessing, possession or distribution of CSAM is forbidden by federal law. The Estate has expressed concern that its Council's review of Epstein's media could subject counsel to criminal investigation or or charges or civil claims. The parties prepared a stipulated motion to provide the Epstein Estate with an approved protocol for reviewing the Epstein Media for purposes of this litigation only without fear or criminal or civil liability, and to protect against disclosure or dissemination. On April 5, 2023, the Federal District Court issued an order establishing such a protocol calling for the Estate to be on alert for csam. If, during the course of that review, images the Estate sees a particular recording that appears to contain possible csam, it shall promptly stop further review of that recording and notify the Federal Bureau of Investigation or such other agency or entity as the FBI may direct of the recording's existence. No CSAM shall be copied or transmitted to another party except as directed by the FBI or the government. Example 5 Order April 5, 2023 it's telling that the Epstein Estate, the parties and the Court believes it's necessary to set up CSAM protocol before Epstein Media is reviewed. It is not known if at least some of the Epstein media contains what Ms. Farmer reported in 1996, much like the hard drives that went missing in Palm beach or the nude photographs locked in Epstein's New York safe. And it's not known who had access to the Epstein media before the court's order, where else those materials might have been located and what those materials contained. As to the three of these tranches of Epstein's images, it's not known what the implications might be as such. Access, possession and location by persons other than Epstein Attorney who took possession of laptop and destroyed hard drive containing CSAM indicted for obstruction of justice the FBI must be held accountable for failures regarding Epstein, just as was done regarding the Parkland shooting, Nasser sex abuse and Charleston shooting in 1996, federal law enforcement failed to investigate Ms. Farmer's 96 reporting of the Epstein sex conspiracy. There should be no question that Ms. Farmer, who had never gone to law enforcement before, was credible and deserved at least a modicum of attention. In 2008, the FBI cut off their investigation prematurely. To date, law enforcement still has not seriously pursued possible CSAM crimes involving Epstein. Had law enforcement done their job, the Epstein trafficking and possible CSAM crimes could have been stopped. Had law enforcement taken even minimal action to respond to repeated reports, many girls would have never been trafficked and the taking, distribution or transportation of sexually exploitative images would have been substantially reduced. The FBI's failure to seriously investigate Epstein and others is even more egregious than its documented failures in the investigation of the Parkland shooting, the Larry Nassar sex abuse of gymnasts and the Charleston church massacre. In the Parkland case, federal investigation revealed that the FBI had received credible threats in the months but before the shootings.
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As the FBI explained regarding the Parkland shooting, under established protocol, the information provided by the caller should have been assessed as a potential threat to life. The information then should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami field office where appropriate investigations would have been taken. As a result of the investigation of FBI failures and FBI employees were disciplined and Parkland victims were compensated. In the Nassar case, federal investigators found that two FBI agents in Indianapolis committed fundamental errors for not acting sooner on allegations of abuse. The Inspector General investigated and released a report concerning the FBI's failure to respond to the allegations of abuse with the utmost seriousness and urgency that they deserved and and required and violations of FBI policy in response to claims filed against the government. Additional review of FBI failures is underway. As to the Charleston church massacre, a federal investigation demonstrated that the FBI lapses in background checks allowed the perpetrator, a self proclaimed white supremacist who wanted to start a race war, to buy the semiautomatic weapon used in the shootings. And in connection with the federal investigation there have been changes in background check procedures. An appellate court ruled that the families of the survivors could seek redress from the federal government and the government agreed to compensate the relatives of the deceased in order to bring some modicum of justice to the victims of the heinous hate. Much like Parkland, Nassar and Charleston church cases, government agencies have a responsibility to investigate and explain why the the FBI failed for a quarter of a century to properly investigate Ms. Farmer and others repeated allegations of Epstein's abuse. Those failures allowed this sex trafficking to continue unabated for decades. It's imperative that the Epstein allegations similarly be accorded the utmost seriousness and urgency that they deserve and require. And the Epstein victims are also brought some modicum of justice and questions abound. What did the FBI do and not do to investigate Epstein? Why was absolutely nothing done in response to Ms. Farmer's 96 report of Epstein and Maxwell sex trafficking and CSAM concerns? Why were other repeated early complaints about Epstein to law enforcement ignored? Was law enforcement pressured to limit and truncate the Epstein investigation? Was law enforcement directed to cut Epstein loose to protect powerful public officials and and businessmen who associated with Epstein were to protect Epstein's confidential informant status? Why did law enforcement give Epstein a pass on potential CSAM crimes by failing to obtain his computer equipment or by suspending the investigation? Are any such images, perhaps produced by Epstein currently traded and available on the Internet? Why haven't the actions and inactions of the FBI regarding Epstein been investigated? Even the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated and reported on state law enforcement's handling of Epstein's wrongdoing? But to date federal law enforcement has utterly failed to do so. For many years the public has been asking for a reckoning by the FBI and the US Government for its clear dereliction of duty to serve and protect the American people against the Epstein sex trafficking conspiracy. The FBI is said to hold itself to the highest standards and integrity, grounding its initials in its motto the fidelity, bravery and Integrity, and serving as the lead agency for enforcing civil rights laws, aggressively investigating human trafficking and involuntary servitude. However, we are aware of no investigation of the FBI and certainly no public disclosure or explanation. Epstein and Maxwell's victims and the public at large are owed a full accounting of of the FBI's many failures and missed opportunities. The American people, the victims and the survivors deserve the truth. We hereby request that a full and fair investigation be promptly launched into the FBI's seriously bungled examination and mismanagement of the crimes committed by Epstein and others. We look forward to your timely response. This document was signed by Jennifer Freeman. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the Description box.
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