I have to assume that those who are still physically able are still committing the crime, Many of the perps are getting to be quite old (or dead) but for the younger ones, sex criminals are notoriously resistant to change unless sent to prison. After incarceration, the pervs have one of the lowest rates of recidivism of all crime categories. Amazing what hard time, so to speak, will do for their attitude of wielding power over humans weaker than themselves.
With that slightly off-topic introduction here is Wall Street on Parade with a couple posts on Epstein's greatest enabler,
According to the complaint filed by lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims against the biggest bank in America, JPMorgan Chase, Epstein was running a “sex-themed cult.” According to a deposition of a JPMorgan banker, the only money-generating business that Epstein had was tending to his “network.” According to witness testimony, fulfilling the sexual fantasies of some men in Epstein’s “network,” was how he obtained six opulent homes and hundreds of millions of dollars in wealth.
Epstein’s cult and network needed one essential ingredient to thrive: a financial institution willing to look the other way at vast sums of hard cash being withdrawn monthly and suspicious transfers of money between Epstein and his accomplices. Epstein found that for at least fifteen years at JPMorgan Chase according to documents and internal emails obtained in discovery in separate lawsuits against the bank in November and December of 2022 by Epstein’s victims and the Attorney General for the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Epstein owned a private, secluded island compound.
Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficked victims are now, however, waving shiny objects to keep the media’s focus on the unsealing of stale documents in a case that was filed in 2015 and settled in 2017, rather than the explosive documents that remain under seal in the JPMorgan-Epstein cases.
The stale documents are part of a defamation case brought by Virginia Giuffre, an Epstein victim, against one of Epstein’s recruiters of underage girls, Ghislaine Maxwell, over her public statements that Giuffre was lying about the sex ring. Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being found guilty in a jury trial on December 29, 2021 for her role in Epstein’s sex trafficking. Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. The New York City medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.
Following a Second Circuit appeals court ruling on August 9, 2019 that found that the lower district court had failed to conduct a “particularized review” before sealing the documents in the Giuffre case, District Court Judge Loretta Preska finally ruled this past December that the documents should be unsealed and released in early January. Preska’s action came after years of litigation to obtain the documents by the Miami Herald – with Epstein’s hometown papers such as the New York Times and Wall Street Journal curiously absent from this quest for public transparency.
This shiny object tactic which has produced the same regurgitated headlines across mainstream media for more than a week, reminds us of the distraction technique used by the Killdeer shorebird, which feigns a broken wing and draws further attention to itself by whooping loudly in order to lead predators in the wrong direction — away from what it hopes to protect in its nest.
In the Epstein matter, the valuable treasure is not in the nest of documents in Preska’s court but in the “nearly 1 million pages and over 82,000 documents” that reside in Judge Jed Rakoff’s court – a Judge who has achieved an uncanny ability to corner the market on cases connecting Epstein to the twisted sexual proclivities of billionaires on Wall Street and their accommodating bankers at JPMorgan Chase.
The same lawyers for Epstein’s victims are involved in both the Giuffre case in Judge Preska’s court and the Epstein-JPMorgan Chase cases in Judge Rakoff’s court: David Boies and Sigrid McCawley of Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP.
David Boies has a not so pristine history of championing sexually-assaulted women. He previously represented now convicted rapist, Harvey Weinstein, and reportedly used strong-arm tactics on Weinstein’s behalf. (See Ronan Farrow’s investigative report in The New Yorker, Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies.)....
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee, part of the legislative branch of the U.S. government, is investigating why Wall Street billionaire Leon Black gave sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein $158 million. But the Senate has made no mention of investigating the more than $100 million in unexplained money and property that former retailing magnate and billionaire Leslie Wexner gave to Epstein.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, denied our Freedom of Information Act request for documents relating to Leslie Wexner’s relationship with Epstein. The Department of Justice, also part of the executive branch, has failed to bring any charges against Wexner.
The federal courts in the Southern District of New York, part of the judicial branch of government, have locked up tight for years incriminating witness testimony involving Leslie Wexner.
Earlier this week, one of those highly incriminating court documents was unsealed and released by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, following years of a legal fight by the Miami Herald newspaper to unlock the documents from the grasp of judicial darkness.
The document was a deposition given by Virginia Giuffre, whom Epstein had turned into his sex slave when she was underage. In a BBC interview in 2022, Giuffre said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” for sex with Epstein’s powerful friends. Prince Andrew was one of Epstein’s powerful friends and settled a lawsuit by Giuffre last year for a reported $12 million.
The deposition of Giuffre was taken on January 16, 2016 as part of discovery in a Florida state court case where lawyers Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell sued attorney Alan Dershowitz for defamation. Dershowitz had claimed that the lawyers had filed a lawsuit containing falsehoods about him. The case was settled between the parties less than four months after it was filed with terms undisclosed. The Giuffre deposition document then made its way into Giuffre’s defamation claim against Epstein’s procurer of young girls, Ghislaine Maxwell, in the federal court in Manhattan. It was unsealed there on Tuesday.
In the newly unsealed deposition, the following separate exchanges occur between the attorney for Dershowitz and Giuffre:
Q. Was Les Wexner one of the powerful business executives that you were trafficked to? A. Yes.
Q. How many times did you have sex with Les Wexner? A. Multiple. Q. What’s the approximate range of number, more than three? A. More than three. Q. More than five? A. Possibly. Q. More than ten? A. No.
Q. Did Mr. Wexner ask you to wear any particular clothing during your sexual trafficking? [Back and forth comments between lawyers.] A. Yes, I wore lingerie for him. Q. At his request? A. It wasn’t his request, it was Ghislaine [Maxwell] who set it up for me. [Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison sentence after being convicted by a jury on federal sex trafficking charges related to Epstein’s victims.]
Q. How many times did you and Les Wexner and Sarah Kellen have sex together? A. Once that I can remember. Q. Where were you? A. New Mexico. Q. Are there other witnesses? A. Number 48 [name redacted in document] I can’t pronounce her last name. Q. [Name redacted in document] A. [Redacted in document] yes. Q. Anyone else? A. Number 50, [name redacted in document].
Later in the deposition, the following separate exchanges occur:
Q. Did you name Les Wexner to the FBI? A. Yes.
Q. And you said I think he has relevant information, but I don’t think he’ll tell you the truth. Do you see that? A. Yes. Q. Why did you think he wouldn’t tell the truth? A. Because he did things that were wrong. Q. What do you mean by that? A. He participated in sex with minors. Q. Did you tell Rebecca [Giuffre’s friend] that Les Wexner had participated in sex with minors? A. Yes, I did.
Let’s pause here for a moment. Giuffre has listed three witnesses to her alleged sexual event(s) with Wexner. She reported his name to the FBI. Perjuring oneself in testimony to the FBI is not something that young women tend to do. And there is a further mountain of evidence that raises alarm bells about Wexner.
Wexner is a billionaire and former longtime Chairman and CEO of The Limited (a/k/a L Brands) retailing chain which, at various times, included Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria’s Secret, Lane Bryant, Bath & Body Works and others. L Brands was a publicly traded company which had to comply with SEC requirements.
According to the SEC, form 8K must be filed with the SEC by a publicly-traded company to announce major events that shareholders should know about. Companies, typically, have just four days to make the 8K filing after becoming aware of the event.
In 2019, the Board of Directors of L Brands hired the law firm, Davis Polk & Wardwell, to investigate the ties between Epstein and Wexner after their close relationship became public following Epstein’s arrest on federal sex trafficking charges. Wexner’s wife had been a lawyer at Davis Polk prior to her marriage to Wexner and the law firm was the longstanding outside counsel to the company. After a shareholder sued the company over Davis Polk not having adequate impartiality in the matter, L Brands hired a second law firm, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, to conduct a second investigation....
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Mr. Wexner has denied all accusations of child-rape/pedophilia and has never been charged for criminal sexual conduct.
We are still waiting to see Epstein's client list. Because of the power of the people involved it may be a long wait.
