Federal prosecutors on Monday released an indictment against billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein charging him with sex trafficking and creating a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit.  The indictment alleges that he would pay girls for massages that would then become sex acts and then paid the girls more money to recruit other girls.  This story has a lot of details and even has connections to the current Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta.  Kate Briquelet, senior reporter at the Daily Beast was in court for Epstein’s arraignment and joins us for details.

Next, records shared with the Washington Post are showing that the FBI and ICE are using state driver’s license photos as a go-to place for facial-recognition searches.  Agents are scanning the faces of many Americans without their consent or knowledge.  Between 2015 and 2017, Utah’s DMV database was alone the subject of nearly 2,000 facial recognition searches from outside law enforcement agencies. Drew Harwell, tech reporter for the Washington Post, joins us for how your state’s DMV database is turning into a facial recognition gold mine.

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