"Powerful" Epstein Accomplices Named by Congressmen Appear To Be Ordinary New Yorkers
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Two crusading U.S. Congressmen, Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, released the names of six men they claimed were "powerful" people tied to Epstein. But no clear evidence ties them to the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker.

The Guardian.

Two crusading U.S. Congressmen, Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, released the names of six men they claimed were “powerful” people tied to Epstein. But no clear evidence ties them to the disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker.

Well… This is getting weirder everyday.

  • A_A@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 hours ago

    i support him now :
    Thomas Massie, congressman

    What I said in November still holds true, “until men are being walked to the jail, this is still a cover-up.”
    Transparency is an essential part of unraveling this global sex trafficking scheme, but it’s not the Department of Transparency, it’s the Department of Justice.
    https://nitter.net/RepThomasMassie/status/2022706033538601206#m
    2026 Feb 14, 16h14 utc (11h14 e.time)

  • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 hours ago

    I wonder if DOJ tried to Honeypot the Congress folks that went to see the files with false documents. We know their searches were monitored. I hate that I sound like a conspiracy theorist but I don’t know what I’d put past these assholes

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    231·
    9 hours ago

    “disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker”

    Accused?

    Convicted.

    Motherfucker plead guilty to solicitation of a minor in 2008.

    He is not an accused sex trafficker.

    And why the fuck did you lead with finance?

    “Disgraced sex trafficking serial rapist, alleged serial murderer and foreign secret intelligence agent Jeffery Epstein…”

    Someone at the guardian is for sure in the fucking files.

    • grindemup@lemmy.world
      7·
      9 hours ago

      Soliciting a minor wouldn’t be considered as sex trafficking though, be would it? I agree though that this is a heinously cowardly description of the man…

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        102·
        9 hours ago

        Posthumously. Ghislane Maxwell was found guilty of conspiring WITH JEFFERY EPSTEIN to

        conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors to participate in illegal sex acts, transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts, sex trafficking conspiracy, and sex trafficking of a minor.

        Source: justice.gov

        So while he wasn’t a convicted sex trafficker, per se, he was a convicted sex offender, and his sex trafficking is beyond accusatory, it is on the record. “Known sex trafficker,” or as I said, “Disgraced sex trafficker.”

        • grindemup@lemmy.world
          6·
          7 hours ago

          Well yeah, OP was nitpicking the word “accused” rather than “convicted” when he was not, in fact, a convicted sex trafficker. Words matter, accuracy matters, especially these days…