Thread by @JerryDunleavy

NEW: It’s the 1st time we’ve gotten real info on Epstein’s worth. Prosecutors say he has a $500+ million fortune tho they don’t seem to know how he made it, call him a flight risk, & roast the defense for suggesting he be allowed to stay in his NYC mansion
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"Any doubt that the defendant is unrepentant and unreformed was eliminated when law enforcement agents discovered hundreds or thousands of nude & seminude photographs of young females in his Manhattan mansion on the night of his arrest."
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"The defendant has at his disposal a vast fortune, the details of which remain largely concealed... He also has a history of... manipulation of witnesses... and continues to show a shocking lack of understanding of the gravity of the harm he perpetrated."
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"Electronic monitoring [in his NYC mansion] would merely give the defendant less of a head start in fleeing — & does not guard against the risk of him endangering victims in the very home where he has continued to hoard nude images of young women & girls."
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"And the private security force he proposes to guard his gilded cage, a proposal rejected by this Court in similar circumstances, simply reinforces... that the defendant should be housed where he can be secured at all times: a federal correctional center."
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"It may not be immediately apparent to a reader of the Release Motion that the defendant is extravagantly wealthy & worth, according to records relating to the defendant recently obtained by the gov't from a financial institution, more than $500 million."
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"Even assuming the defendant’s assets are presently in the United States, nothing in the proposed package would prevent the defendant from transferring liquid assets out of the country quickly and in anticipation of flight or relocation."
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"Even were the defendant to sacrifice literally all of his current assets, there is every indication that he would immediately be able to resume making millions or tens of millions of dollars per year outside of the United States."
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"He already earns at least $10,000,000 per year, according to records from Institution-1, while living in the U.S. Virgin Islands, traveling extensively abroad, and residing in part in Paris, France."
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"There would be little to stop the defendant from fleeing, transferring his unknown assets abroad, and then continuing to do whatever it is he does to earn his vast wealth from a computer terminal beyond the reach of extradition."
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