THE EPSTEIN SCANDAL IS A MULTI-LAYER COVER-UP

The Trump DOJ has asked a federal judge overseeing the case of Jeffrey Epstein to deny a request from NBC News to unseal the names of two associates who received large payments from him in 2018. The Trump DOJ cited privacy concerns expressed by the two individuals as the reason for not making their names public. The first associate received a payment of $100K from Epstein. The second associate received a payment of $250K, both in 2018. Just days after the Miami Herald began publishing a series of investigative stories where victims criticized a shameful plea deal Epstein received in Florida in 2008. As part of this plea deal Epstein secured a statement from federal prosecutors in Florida that these two individuals would not be prosecuted. Prosecutors cited the payments he made to the two individuals, two days after the Miami Herald began publishing its stories on Epstein’s plea deal. Prosecutors wrote that on Nov. 30, 2018, Epstein “wired $100,000 from a trust account he controlled, to an individual named as [REDACTED] a potential co-conspirator — and for whom Epstein obtained protection in — the NPA.” Prosecutors also wrote that “this individual was also named and featured prominently in the Herald series.” The prosecutors continued: “This individual is also one of the employees identified in the Indictment, which alleges that she and two other identified employees facilitated the defendant’s trafficking of minors by, among other things, contacting victims and scheduling their sexual encounters with the defendant at his residences in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida.” Witness influencing? Last month, NBC News sent a letter asking U.S. District Judge Richard Berman to unseal the redacted names because Epstein is deceased, the criminal proceedings have ended, and the DOJ said in a memo in July that there would be no additional charges filed against uncharged third parties. So what’s the Trump DOJ holdup? The dubious cover of ‘privacy concerns’ seems so subjective as to be worthless. It sounds to a layman that NPAs were doled out to protect abusers, not their privacy. Or is that essentially the same thing? But wrapped up in the law? These two people should be questioned, their roles examined, and justice served on everyone who participated in the Epstein/Maxwell crimes against young girls. This is a cover-up.