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   It's because like Trump, I'm a rightwing pedophile who's addicted to   
   watching kiddy porn.   
      
      
      
   Florida prosecutors knew Trump/Epstein raped teenage girls 2 years before   
   cutting deal with Florida MAGA District Attorney, transcript shows   
      
      
   FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida prosecutors knew the late millionaire   
   and financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted teenage girls two years   
   before they cut a plea deal that has long been criticized as too lenient   
   and a missed opportunity to imprison him a decade earlier, according to   
   transcripts released Monday.   
      
   The 2006 grand jury investigation was the first of many by law enforcement   
   over the past two decades into Epstein’s rape and sex trafficking of   
   teenagers — and how his ties to the rich and the powerful seem to have   
   allowed him to avoid prison or a serious jail term for over a decade.   
      
   The investigations uncovered Epstein’s close ties to former President Bill   
   Clinton and Britain’s Prince Andrew, as well as his once friendly   
   relationship with former President Donald Trump and numerous others of   
   wealth and influence who have denied doing anything criminal or improper   
   and not been charged.   
      
   Circuit Judge Luis Delgado’s release of approximately 150 pages Monday came   
   as a surprise, since there was scheduled hearing next week over unsealing   
   the graphic testimony. Gov. Ron DeSantis had signed a bill in February   
   allowing the release on Monday or any time thereafter that Delgado ordered.   
   Florida grand jury transcripts are usually kept secret forever, but the   
   bill created an exemption for cases like Epstein’s.   
      
      
   The transcripts show that the grand jury heard testimony that Epstein, who   
   was then in his 40s, had raped teenage girls as young as 14 at his Palm   
   Beach mansion, often paying them so he could commit statutory rape or   
   assault. The teenagers testified and told detectives they were also paid   
   cash or rented cars if they found him more girls.   
      
   “The details in the record will be outrageous to decent people,” Delgado   
   wrote in his order. “The testimony taken by the Grand Jury concerns   
   activity ranging from grossly unacceptable to rape — all of the conduct at   
   issue is sexually deviant, disgusting, and criminal.”   
      
   In 2008, Epstein cut a deal with South Florida federal prosecutors that   
   allowed him to escape more severe federal charges and instead plead guilty   
   to state charges of procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and   
   solicitation of prostitution. He was sentenced to 1.5 years in the Palm   
   Beach County jail system, during which he was allowed to go to his office   
   almost daily as part of a work-release program, followed by a year of house   
   arrest. He was required to register as a sex offender.   
      
   Criticism of the deal resulted in the 2019 resignation of Trump’s labor   
   secretary, Alex Acosta, who was the U.S. attorney for South Florida in 2008   
   and signed off on the deal. A 2020 Justice Department investigation   
   concluded that Acosta used “poor judgment” in his handling of the Epstein   
   prosecution, but it didn’t rise to the level of professional misconduct.   
      
   The chief prosecutor in the Epstein case, former Palm Beach County State   
   Attorney Barry Krischer, did not immediately respond Monday to an email and   
   a voicemail seeking comment about the transcripts’ release.   
      
   Current Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg, who was not   
   involved in the investigation, said in a statement he is glad the records   
   have been released. He said he has not yet read the transcripts, so could   
   not comment on whether Krischer should have pursued a tougher prosecution   
   of Epstein.   
      
   Brad Edwards, an attorney for many of the victims, said in a statement that   
   the transcripts show that Krischer’s office “took the case to the Grand   
   Jury with an agenda — to return minimal, if any, criminal charges against   
   Jeffrey Epstein.”   
      
   “A fraction of the evidence was presented, in a misleading way, and the   
   Office portrayed the victims as criminals,” he said. “It is so sad, the   
   number of victims Epstein was able to abuse because the State carried water   
   for him when they had a chance to put him away.”   
      
   Epstein’s estate is paying $155 million in restitution to more than 125   
   victims.   
      
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