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Two women tried to expose Jeffrey Epstein three decades ago. Why didn’t the FBI stop him?

Source: PA Wire

Annie Farmer knew the answers she’d been looking for nearly three decades would not magically appear in the more than 4,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents unsealed this month. But she hoped she might get some semblance of an explanation. Because Annie wasn’t just a victim of Epstein — she was a whistleblower. After being molested as a teenager by Epstein and his associate, convicted child abuser Ghislaine Maxwell, her sister reported what they knew to the FBI. They expected a full-scale investigation. What they got was ten years of silence.

Annie followed the unsealing of the Epstein documents in New York from a distance — more than a thousand miles away, in a different state where she’s created a life far removed from the events she’s recounted to investigators, journalists and in court countless times.

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