Jeffrey Epstein, accused sex trafficker, dies by suicide

[thedestroyerofworlds]

Hopefully the investigation will bring ALL who were involved to justice.  Hopefully.

 

 

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Case against Jeffrey Epstein dismissed following his death

U.S. District Judge Richard Berman had said at a hearing on Tuesday that he was legally bound to dismiss the case. Prosecutors said at that hearing that an investigation into Epstein’s alleged crimes would continue, and that the dismissal would not prevent them from charging possible co-conspirators in the future.

[xereau]

[riffraff]

14 hours ago, thedestroyerofworlds said:

Hopefully the investigation will bring ALL who were involved to justice.  Hopefully.

 

 

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Case against Jeffrey Epstein dismissed following his death

U.S. District Judge Richard Berman had said at a hearing on Tuesday that he was legally bound to dismiss the case. Prosecutors said at that hearing that an investigation into Epstein’s alleged crimes would continue, and that the dismissal would not prevent them from charging possible co-conspirators in the future.

Agree.

 

north America needs to see that the law applies to all.  A reset needs to happen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or is it a rebuild?

[Gurn]

I looked for the Weinstein/me too thread for a bit, but could not find it.

So I'll just put this here:

Thumbs up to Maddow for not letting this drop, even though it involves her network, and her bosses' jobs.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/rachel-maddow-confronts-her-nbc-news-bosses-live-on-the-air/ar-AAJuOOa?ocid=spartandhp

 

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This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the timing of NBC Universal’s release of the results of an investigation of Matt Lauer’s behavior with colleagues. The results were released several months after NBC fired Mr. Lauer, not seven months.

 

The MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow publicly confronted the leadership of her own network on Friday night, declaring live on air that she and other NBC News employees had deep concerns about whether the organization had stymied Ronan Farrow’s reporting on the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

In a prime-time monologue, Ms. Maddow questioned why NBC News executives had not invited an independent investigation of the Weinstein episode or the workplace behavior of Matt Lauer, the former “Today” show anchor who was fired in 2017 after a colleague accused him of sexual misconduct.

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“I’ve been through a lot of ups and downs in this company since I’ve been here,” Ms. Maddow said. “It would be impossible for me to overstate the amount of consternation inside the building around this issue.”

Ms. Maddow also revealed that NBCUniversal, the network’s parent company, had agreed to release NBC News employees from contractual clauses that could prevent them from speaking openly about sexual harassment they may have experienced at the network.

Ms. Maddow interviewed Mr. Farrow on her show — itself a surprise booking considering her bosses have been at war with him since the publication of his new book, “Catch and Kill,” in which he asserts that NBC executives blocked his reporting on Mr. Weinstein’s brutal treatment of women.

Rich McHugh, Mr. Farrow’s producer at NBC, said in an interview with The New York Times last year that their reporting efforts were blocked. He made that claim again in a detailed first-person article published by Vanity Fair two weeks ago.

NBC News has strenuously denied any suggestion that it got in the way of Mr. Farrow’s investigation of the accusations against Mr. Weinstein, saying that his work was not fit for broadcast at the time he left the network in August 2017. Mr. Farrow later published his findings in articles for The New Yorker, the first of which was published in October 2017.

The magazine ended up sharing a Pulitzer Prize in the public service category with The New York Times thanks to Mr. Farrow’s articles. NBC has maintained that his published work was substantially different from what he had when he was still at the network.

Mr. Farrow has been on a major publicity tour for his book, making appearances on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS, “The View” on ABC, and Fox News, among other venues. Until his Friday appearance on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” he had not appeared on an NBC-owned property to promote “Catch and Kill.”

Ms. Maddow — whose program is MSNBC’s No. 1 ratings draw — represents the biggest name in the NBC family to express misgivings over the network’s handling of Mr. Farrow’s reporting. Her on-air statements on Friday were likely to increase pressure on the NBC News leadership team, including the chairman, Andrew Lack, and the news division president, Noah Oppenheim, who have faced scrutiny from the press and inside network headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

“The allegations about the behavior of Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer are gut-wrenching,” Ms. Maddow said on Friday night. “But accusations that people in positions of authority in this building may have been complicit in some way in shielding those guys from accountability — those accusations are very, very hard to stomach.”

Additionally, Ms. Maddow expressed misgivings over what executives knew about Mr. Lauer’s behavior before his firing in November 2017.

In May 2018, several months after NBC fired Mr. Lauer, NBC Universal released the findings of an investigation that absolved top news executives. “We found no evidence indicating that any NBC News or ‘Today’ show leadership, News H.R. or others in positions of authority in the News Division received any complaints about Lauer’s workplace behavior prior to Nov. 27, 2017,” the report said.

But the report also created a backlash, because it was overseen by NBC Universal’s chief counsel, Kimberley D. Harris. Other media organizations that have faced accusations of workplace misconduct in recent years, including Fox News, CBS and NPR, hired outside law firms to conduct investigations.

Mr. Farrow, in “Catch and Kill,” reported that NBC had issued secret settlements to other women who had complained about Mr. Lauer, a charge executives have vehemently denied.

“As far as we can tell, there has never been an independent investigation of that,” Ms. Maddow said. “So until there is an independent investigation — if there’s ever going to be one — that remains NBC’s word versus Ronan Farrow’s reporting and assertions.”

In a statement that Ms. Maddow read on air, NBCUniversal, the network’s parent company, said it would release former NBC News employees from any “perceived obligation” to stay silent about sexual harassment at the network. The statement referred to any nondisclosure or nondisparagement clause in employees’ exit agreements, which, Mr. Farrow has argued, had unfairly prevented women from describing their experiences.

Mr. Farrow told Ms. Maddow that “NBCUniversal executives deserve praise” for the move, which he called “significant.”

Ms. Maddow is the second MSNBC prime-time host to express support for Mr. Farrow. Last week, Chris Hayes praised Mr. Farrow’s reporting on his MSNBC show, calling his work “the kind of journalism that you want to do as a journalist, that everyone who works in this business should want to facilitate.”

“One thing is indisputable,” Mr. Hayes said on air. “Ronan Farrow walked out of NBC News while working on the Weinstein story and, within two months, published an incredible article at The New Yorker that not only won a Pulitzer, but helped trigger a massive social and cultural reckoning that continues to this day.”

Mr. Farrow also appeared on Ms. Maddow’s show in October 2017, shortly after The New Yorker published his first article on Mr. Weinstein. That appearance helped spark a firestorm over why the story wound up in The New Yorker instead of on NBC’s airwaves — a question that persists two years later.

In the 2017 interview, after Ms. Maddow pressed Mr. Farrow on why he had not reported his story for NBC, Mr. Farrow said: “I walked into the door at The New Yorker with an explosively reportable piece that should have been public earlier, and immediately, obviously, The New Yorker recognized that. It is not accurate to say that it was not reportable. In fact, there were multiple determinations that it was reportable at NBC.”

In “Catch and Kill,” Mr. Farrow details the outraged reaction from Mr. Oppenheim and the MSNBC president, Phil Griffin, after the show ended.

“The moment she was off air, Maddow got her call,” Mr. Farrow wrote. “She paced up and down the set, phone pressed to her ear, Griffin’s raised voice audible even at a distance.”

Mr. Farrow said Mr. Oppenheim shouted at him and asked him to sign a statement that “conceded the story had passed a legal and standards review but said it also failed to meet ‘our standards.’” Mr. Farrow wrote that he would not sign such a statement but promised that he would “avoid answering further questions like Maddow’s.”

On Friday night, Mr. Farrow, seated opposite Ms. Maddow at her studio desk, praised the anchor for her willingness to once again broach the issue in a public forum.

“People speaking truth to power about their own bosses, about their own institutions, is a really important part of how we can have an honest conversation about this,” he said, as Ms. Maddow looked on."

[bishopshodan]

10 minutes ago, gurn said:

I looked for the Weinstein/me too thread for a bit, but could not find it.

So I'll just put this here:

Thumbs up to Maddow for not letting this drop, even though it involves her network, and her bosses' jobs.

I watched the Farrow interview on Colbert, made me want to read Catch and Kill.

 

What a brave dude. 

 

And yea, Way to go Maddow. 

[Lancaster]

Hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist.... but there is some conspiracy going on....

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50296742

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Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats'

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Image copyrightDEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE/ GETTY Image captionABC journalist Amy Robach (left) and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

Leaked footage shows a US TV anchor complaining that editors "quashed" a story about paedophile Jeffrey Epstein due to pressure from the Royal Family.

ABC's Amy Robach is seen in the clip griping that her interview with an alleged victim of Epstein and Prince Andrew never made it to air.

"The Palace found out," she says, "and threatened us a million different ways."

Epstein was found dead in a jail cell while awaiting trial for sex crimes.

The death of the wealthy financier last August was ruled a suicide by investigators.

• Prince Andrew 'was an abuser' - Epstein accuser

In the video, Ms Robach vents frustration that her 2015 interview with Virginia Giuffre - formerly Virginia Roberts - was never broadcast.

The clip was leaked on Tuesday by Project Veritas, a group that seeks to expose perceived liberal bias in the mainstream media.

Image Copyright @Project_Veritas@PROJECT_VERITAS

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Ms Giuffre, 35, alleges she was abused by Epstein and was ordered to have sex with powerful men including Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.

In court documents she said she was forced to have sex with the British royal on three separate occasions while she was under the legal age of consent.

Prince Andrew has denied having "any form of sexual contact or relationship" with Ms Giuffre.

In 2015, a judge ruled that the allegations made by Ms Giuffre regarding Prince Andrew were "immaterial and impertinent" and ordered them to be removed from a claim against Epstein.

Image copyrightVIRGINIA ROBERTS Image captionMs Giuffre says she was abused by Prince Andrew several times

What does the video show?

"I've had this story for three years. I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts," says Robach, speaking to someone off-camera.

"We would not put it on the air. First of all, I was told, 'who's Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story.'

"Then the Palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways.

"We were so afraid that we wouldn't be able to interview Kate and Will.

"That also quashed the story," the host of ABC's 20/20 programme added.

In a statement to BBC News a spokesperson for Buckingham Palace said "this is a matter for ABC".

• Andrew 'appalled' by Epstein's sex abuse claims
• Prince Andrew's links to Jeffrey Epstein
• Epstein accuser urges Andrew to 'come clean'
• Who was Jeffrey Epstein?

Robach also says that the interview included allegations against former US President Bill Clinton.

"We had everything," she continues. "I tried for three years to get it on, to no avail.

"And now it's all coming out and it's like these new revelations and I freaking had all of it."

Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Image captionMs Robach (second from right) was in London to cover the 2013 birth of Prince George

How have ABC responded?

In a statement after the footage leaked, ABC stood by its decision not to air the interview, saying the reporting did not meet its standards.

"But we have never stopped investigating the story," the statement continues, adding that "substantial resources" had been dedicated to investigating Epstein.

In a separate statement, Robach said she "was caught in a private moment of frustration" last summer as the Epstein story unfolded.

She said she was "upset that an important interview I had conducted with Virginia Roberts didn't air because we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence" to meet ABC's editorial standards.

"My comments about Prince Andrew and her allegation that she had seen Bill Clinton on Epstein's private island were in reference to what Virginia Roberts said in that interview in 2015.

"I was referencing her allegation - not what ABC News had verified through our reporting."

She added that "in the years since no one ever told me or the team to stop reporting" on Epstein.
 

 

Upcoming news, RIP to the news anchor.... soon to be found to have committed suicide via hanging from a bridge, poisoned and a couple of gunshot wounds to the back of the head.  Cremated immediately, no further investigation required.  

Edited November 5, 2019 by Lancaster

[Ronaldoescobar]

Deleted.... I just can’t.... LOL

Edited November 6, 2019 by Ronaldoescobar

[RUPERTKBD]

It might be too long ago for some to remember (or even have heard about) but there was a time before Fergie came along, when Prince Andrew was referred to by the British tabloids as "Randy Andy"....

 

....I think we now have a pretty good idea why.....

[Russ]

1 hour ago, RUPERTKBD said:

It might be too long ago for some to remember (or even have heard about) but there was a time before Fergie came along, when Prince Andrew was referred to by the British tabloids as "Randy Andy"....

 

....I think we now have a pretty good idea why.....

I just had to google who Prince Andrew was, never even heard of him before this story, mind you I could give a rats arse about the royal family anyways.

[RUPERTKBD]

19 minutes ago, Russ said:

I just had to google who Prince Andrew was, never even heard of him before this story, mind you I could give a rats arse about the royal family anyways.

Well, you see, I'm educated in a lot more things than just current American politics...

[kurtis]

Prince Andrew and Bill are just as sick as Jeffrey was for preying on young girls. 

[canuckster19]

 

LOL, and the mainstream media wonder's why the middle class doesn't trust them and flocks to alternative sources.

[bishopshodan]

All you ever hear about with the Royal Family is piddly stuff about Meghan.... yet nothing about Prince Andrew?!?

 

With all the dirt on him......crickets.

 

I said it on the first page of this thread. This was the Brit royal fam. You do not mess with them.

 

Although I heard the fur bearing animals of the world can sleep a little better. The Queens is going faux fur from now on.

[Alflives]

8 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:

All you ever hear about with the Royal Family is piddly stuff about Meghan.... yet nothing about Prince Andrew?!?

 

With all the dirt on him......crickets.

 

I said it on the first page of this thread. This was the Brit royal fam. You do not mess with them.

 

Although I heard the fur bearing animals of the world can sleep a little better. The Queens is going faux fur from now on.

Prince Andrew (who is that anyway?) is a perv?  

[NewbieCanuckFan]

15 hours ago, kurtis said:

Prince Andrew and Bill are just as sick as Jeffrey was for preying on young girls. 

I don't think Slick Willy discriminates age.  Anything female gets his motor running.  

[xereau]

[bishopshodan]

1 hour ago, Alflives said:

Prince Andrew (who is that anyway?) is a perv?  

Google him and Epstein. 

 

Lots of info out there which goes against my claim of not much coverage. It's just that it is dwarfed by some of the nonsense most outlets go on about referring to the Royals.

Edited November 6, 2019 by bishopshodan

[Alflives]

6 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:

Google him and Epstein. 

 

Lots of info out there which goes against my claim of not much coverage. It's just that it is dwarfed by some of the nonsense most outlets go on about referring to the Royals.

Isn't kind of historical fact that men in positions of power (and the elite wealthy) get away with terrible crimes?  It's sadly true that the vast majority of horrifyingly terrible men have never even been heard of by us.  So for a Prince of England to be someone not talked about is (sadly) just par for the course of history.  I think that's another reason why we have religions that promote a hell, or place for punishment of sins.  The common people need that comfort.  Or is it because the wealthy elite want us to fear eternal damnation so we don't go all French Revolution on the evil bastards?

[bishopshodan]

6 minutes ago, Alflives said:

Isn't kind of historical fact that men in positions of power (and the elite wealthy) get away with terrible crimes?  It's sadly true that the vast majority of horrifyingly terrible men have never even been heard of by us.  So for a Prince of England to be someone not talked about is (sadly) just par for the course of history.  I think that's another reason why we have religions that promote a hell, or place for punishment of sins.  The common people need that comfort.  Or is it because the wealthy elite want us to fear eternal damnation so we don't go all French Revolution on the evil bastards?

Sure, but times are changing. I think for the first time in a long time the 0.01%'ers are slipping. We'll see. 

This time around the revolution will not be televised. 

 

One of his accusers just did 60 mins in Australia. this article also mentions how ABC 'killed a story.

https://torontosun.com/news/world/epstein-sex-trafficking-victim-prince-andrew-belongs-in-jail

 

and yes, i think a big part of org religion is mass control.

 

 

[Ronaldoescobar]

Still believe it was the JT/Soros/Obama/Killary communist, fascist, socialist cabal that X’d Epstein... Unless Andrew was a member..... now it’s starting to make sense....