Document references alleged Epstein non‑prosecution deal, FBI evidence, and pressure on U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Acosta during his 2017 labor‑secreta...

Thursday, February 28, 2019 PERVERSION OF JUSTICE The Virgin Islands Daily Nevvs 13 PERVERSION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 massage his chest, often thstnithing them to pinch his nipples, while he mastur.ted ac- cording to the police report At times, if emboldened, he vasuld try to r:::::trac",2,V0757.TigcagYir were willing to let him, including intercourse, w=f1:117=inirsi a youn woman he deseribal as his Yugoslaviangsex slave, Nadia Marcinkova. who was over 18, to join in, the girls told Itecarey. Epstein often td°i:pk1:::crtrn.Pi 1=4 Itso't:ve,irgeTtVive said. a gn:cv. crinx.hasu"magrsfilvfic"1=m, "7191c1111 girls IftSClibC13 as having a large shoiwr and a hot pinlc and mint green sofa. Kellen (now Metiers) and Maitinkova, enerbels, declined to comment Targeting disadvantaged girls One girl told polite that she was approached tYa:nwEorlITaTe Zliinhegtnortwl rditratnhe rthlirgit7iTtlailis7ti she .Thte:egdirIndtearfhully told Reearey that she often had sex wiorgar.c=whileesErostein Ofttsne tt Inie's 'slot irceea the encounters that shc could barely walk. the Illeu`t srlisdlth was finn about t • to have intercourse with Epstein. n° want' ":17th'cr:a:::117 thiftici=ngoenmi; rIne;olat fairTehean:i=dtst:r1 felt% time, said that Epstein apologized and paid her ighiz-ztrn.oisre=„vg4====rirEEIF I kept looking at the timer because I didn't enact to have this mental image of what he was doing. — [REDACTED], Jane Doe No. 2, who told police she had sexual encounters vvith Jeffrey Epstein by their peer reenthers to lic b Epstcin about S1,000, the police report said. their ages and say they were 18. Epstein, legal Most of the girls came from disadthntaged families. single-pare:ftd=es=e• 1117realigsd: Th'eTh7cd parents and frier. who 1:b="Y1 'esZd and beat them. One girl had watched hcr the pfat.r stningle .r 8-year-old stepbrother, ficLoaritlding to court records obtained by the Many of the girls were one step away from Ithmelessness. "We were sti,id, poor children:. said one woman. who did not want to be named because she never told anyone about Epstein. At the time, she recalled that the was 14 and a high school freshman. "We just wanted money for sclthol clothes, for shoes. I remember wearing shoes too tight tr:1"72:::ertohiadt=rd going to just have to sit in a room topless and t171`:. tiVa°2;itit'irt=frisIgiln:dfosi° .1".itTittlhean.Wlio went to Epstein, home multiple times, said Epstein didn't like her because her bre.s were too big. The I. time she went, she said, onc girl came out crying and they were instructed to leave the house and had to pay for their own cab homc. Some girls told police thcy xere coached =::::`.7hcciraelT:shant.741,;:bceogit— known. However, under Florida law, ignorance of a sex partner, age is not a defense for having sex with a minor. Wild, who worked for Epstein mil she was 21, said he was well aware of their tender ages gate, Epstein get icaeeaaingiy angey eiih hat — because he demanded t.y be young. colegIddtini=1:i=atasj lung Vdtreir,t(t'ht:iilisItIngtvranyff 1 would go a day. Ile wanted as many girls as 1 could get hitn. vms never enough .- Broadening his reach .EPI:Zi:,schheienc iten began to, unravel in old girl told Palm Beach police that :11-lheaLl been molested by Epstein at his mansion. The girl reluctantly confessed t.t she had been brought there by two other girls, and those girls ,Z=Ftsi`rvahe="ote' victim, there were tuo and three more to find. Soon there were dozens. "We didn't know where the victims would ever end," Reiter said. Eventually, the girls told t.m about still other girls and young isemen they had seen at hRluse. ma.7 of whom didn't speak That ted RacTaYres; to suspect that Epstein, exploits weren't just confined to Palm Beach. caZittedciftchnelall"t kgssairTntraiis'e :17111:211:11c:ifgTeP Inca w h'polcsvo If' a 7i-s asennd peozrerffil people who had also been pas- .eW}I'yeirl:aYsCadi(FLBI report, posted on the bureau's we.ite as a result of the Herald, Freedom of Information Act request, shows that at the time the non-prosecution deal was LT:1Z rroBm .hvlossinteljvntdw472 The probe stretcneuactrom Florida to New York and New Mexico, records show. Indeed, one lawsuit, sallIgPeesntttlIn Nec Tack, an international modeling agency to recruit girls as YE.Cuunri oa: nr " T. girls lived in a New York building ovmed by Epstein. who paid for their Zil=rdingt to°fttivl'aritza Misquez, the one4ime bookkeeper for Mc2, the modeling age, if Mike Fisten Mace Fistcn, a former Miami-Dade police sanira=roTttlegl'OtintirCe:irc' Task Force, said the FBI had enough cvidence to put Epstein away for a long time but was ovegutloedp flreide, tlirander Actaihwetpwas Mi- Some of t.agPertrtitirved in the tase were disappointed by Acosta, bowing to pthssure from Epstein, lawyers, he said. "T. day that a sitting U.S. attorney is afraid cs'tfaItyTirth'irsactin'tr'yf,''sti`Fnitt,ill'72' private investigator for Edwa.. Acosta's path to power feilx:s'ii,a,stiZrerstf=ewu'Ydetge Zsai;:nmdZiZar:crg,,,by'irhhc71313i,k,7s. ligation .s closed even as, recently rckascd documents show, thc c. =cgenoTacpvoisc:itre sex-trafficking conspiracy beyond Palm Beach. Upon his nomination by Trump as labor secretary in 2017.Acosta was ques- tioned about thc Epstein ease during a Senate confir- mation hcaring. Alexander &_& ba:,'.‘ctitnIndeirLhen:Y. Ac"ta rcrefid=a71r:laufgr= VIne goes to jail, that guarantees he tegister [as a sex offender]agencralty and guarantees ot.r :net': to' snot ri:stgeuCutnAcelsntafestlafify.' California Dcmocratic Scn. Dianne Fein- ::ciLPT,i7"h=c1-ab=7:7 scx trafficking of underage girls when he was a u.S. attorney suggests he won't put thc inter- ests of workeis and everyday people ahead of the powerful and well-connected, Matti Hamikon. a University of Pennsyl- :xdcortircers against chil(Ilirdthii: said. what tos, ta t. Catholi=rdid psruolIctitlophile Pn.c`slt real crimc with thc Catholic priests ;Z:ltrers,%:tYnielrseattql::1=o„ of power by men only is protected as long as everybody agrees to keep it secret. This is a story the uorld needs to hear, Jane Doe No. 2 [REDACTED] climbed a narrow, winding vast master bcd and bath, with cream-colored shag carpeting and a hot pink and mint green sofa. T'iiieerreTvnaisrvsaiti,Yallt;:z1VId a timer. A silver-haired man wearing nothing but a white towel came into the room. lay 6. 11°„ZnTliirZissesadttcaabilac;011,11bwhilistt.iinegg:" and feet. After he hung up, the man turned over and See PEFtVERSION, page 14