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    CARNAL CRIMES

    Sep 24, 2019 4 minutes
    BY RICHARD BROOKHISER

    In August financier Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in the jail cell in which he was awaiting trial on federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to traffic minors for sex. FBI agents who raided Epstein’s Gotham mansion had found thousands of lewd images of young women and underage girls; the court of public opinion viewed his end as no loss.

    But even this self-enforced verdict had been a long time coming. In 2008, after a lengthy investigation occasioned by allegations from 36 girls that Epstein had molested them at his Palm Beach mansion, he and federal prosecutors for the Southern District of Florida agreed to a deal whereby Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge of soliciting prostitution

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