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   There’s more mysterious news related to the Epstein case today.   
   Earlier this week a Florida State Senator named Lauren Book   
   (she’s a Democrat) wrote a letter to Republican Gov. DeSantis   
   asking for an investigation of Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.   
   Bradshaw was Sheriff during Jeffrey Epstein’s brief stint in   
   jail and supervised the very special work-release arrangement   
   that allowed Epstein to leave jail up to 12-hours a day, six-   
   days-a-week to do whatever it is he does for a living. Now State   
   Sen. Book says she is receiving threats warning her to back off:   
      
   Florida Sen. Lauren Book has reached out to Capitol police after   
   receiving an anonymous warning connected to her demand for a   
   state inquiry into Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s handling of   
   accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s lenient work release   
   program, the Miami Herald has learned.   
      
   Book, a vocal advocate for child sexual assault survivors, said   
   she also received more than a dozen calls by Bradshaw’s   
   political supporters asking her to back off on her call for an   
   investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement into   
   Bradshaw…   
      
   “I’ve received countless phone calls saying ‘Little girl you   
   don’t know what you’re getting into,’ and telling me that I   
   should just stop,’’ said Book, a child sexual abuse survivor who   
   has worked to pass strict sex offender laws in Florida.   
      
   In a statement, the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office said it had no   
   knowledge of anyone trying to threaten or pressure Book.   
      
   Palm Beach County has said it will, in essence, investigate   
   itself to see if anything should have been done differently. I   
   think we can all guess how that will turn out. But today Gov.   
   DeSantis said he will consider a state investigation of the   
   situation.   
      
   There is also a Russian interference angle to this story. A   
   former Palm Beach County Sherriff named John Dougan fled to   
   Moscow after an FBI raid of his home in 2016. He now runs a blog   
   from Russia which is supposedly aimed at revealing corruption   
   within his former home county. That sounds extremely sketchy to   
   me but Dougan has claimed that Sheriff Bradshaw used the pretext   
   of “imminent danger” to look into State Sen. Book’s phone and   
   emails. The Sheriff’s Office has denied this but Book has asked   
   Capitol Police to investigate.   
      
   All of this comes after reports last week that Epstein’s work   
   release arrangement was even cushier than it had appeared:   
      
   Picked up by his private driver in a limo and allowed to make   
   stops at his own home. Contact 5 has uncovered new details about   
   Jeffrey Epstein’s time spent outside of his Palm Beach County   
   jail cell.   
      
   Deputy logs show Epstein was escorted to his home by deputies at   
   least 9 times. He sometimes spent two or three hours inside   
   while a deputy provided/maintained/conducted security outside   
   his home.   
      
   On July 11, 2009 for example, a deputy wrote that he escorted   
   Epstein to his house and “provided security to prevent unwelcome   
   guest from entering his property.”…   
      
   Earlier this week, a Fort Lauderdale attorney claims “more than   
   one woman” was propositioned by Epstein at his Florida Science   
   Foundation office, while visiting him during work release hours.   
      
   “He was not sitting there conducting some scientific research   
   for the betterment of the community,” attorney Brad Edwards told   
   reporters at a press conference in New York City on Tuesday.   
   “[The women] believed that they were going there for something   
   other than a sexual purpose, and while there, surprisingly to   
   them, the situation turned sexual.”   
      
   The Sheriff’s Office told WPTV 5 that sex offenders are not   
   allowed to have work release as a rule. So why was Epstein   
   allowed out? Apparently, because he didn’t formally register as   
   a sex offender until he left jail. So the fact that he was a   
   convicted sex offender during his time in jail didn’t matter to   
   Sheriff Bradshaw, only the fact that technically, he wasn’t   
   registered. It’s just one more mysterious instance in which   
   Epstein got special treatment from people in power. I sincerely   
   doubt that any run-of-the-mill sex offender who wasn’t a   
   billionaire with connections to powerful people would have been   
   given a 12-hour day pass to travel around in his personal limo.   
      
   https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/07/25/florida-state-   
   sen-says-received-threats-telling-back-off-epstein-case/   
      
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