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@jkbjournalist
Aug 7, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
The phrase "sexually charged massages" should never be used in describing Epstein's victims. They were teenage girls -- and this phrase implies that this was something less than what it was -- when it was a crime under Florida law. palmbeachdailynews.com/news/20190806/…
Under Florida Statute 800.04(5), the crime of Lewd or Lascivious Molestation is committed when a person intentionally touches the breasts, genitals, or buttocks of a child younger than 16; or encourages, forces, or entices a child younger than 16 to touch another person...
...in a lewd or lascivious manner. At the very least this was lewd and lascivious, at worst in some cases, it was rape. This is not under dispute, the FBI identified 34 victims.
I have to add, that I truly believe that one of the reasons that this case was not taken seriously by prosecutors and to some degree, the media, is because these kinds of phrases were consistently used back in 2006 to describe this crime.

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Never in a million years when I wrote my "Perversion of Justice" series seven years ago @miamiherald seven years ago did I think this would happen. (thread)
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2. I've been asked a lot about why I took up this old case which had been written about at length by other journalists over the years. Even with the little bit I knew about the case in 2016, I couldn't understand why and how Epstein got away with such horrible crimes.
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Key words in Patel’s comments today:
1. “Credible” — you can’t get “credible” evidence or testimony if you don’t listen, you don’t investigate and you don’t dig. What’s more, for far too long DOJ ignored Epstein’s victims and treated them terribly. Any seasoned investigator will tell you —you don’t make a case that way. You build a case with other evidence, phone records, emails, witnesses, bank records, why didn’t they flip his employees? etc etc etc (More)
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2. “Our information is limited” — what does this even mean? Isn’t it the FBI and DOJ’s JOB to follow the case until they get to the truth? Did they even look? Most victims say they have NEVER been contacted by the FBI. WHY?
3. “Limited search warrant” issued in 2006 — this is a red herring. The problem was not the search warrant. The problem was Epstein was tipped off before the police got there to serve it and he was able to remove his computers. Either way this didn’t pose a problem in 2019 when Epstein was arrested — and neither did it stop a grand jury from indicting him. It’s an excuse that doesn’t even make sense.
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May 13
From the beginning, both sides of the political spectrum wanted to point the blame for the Epstein coverup on each other. The truth is the bad guys (and women) were on all sides of politics. So there is no "appeasing" the far right -- or the far left. Everyone -- left and right -- has dirty hands. (thread)
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Even then, at Maxwell's criminal trial, it was again clear that mistakes were made in evidence gathering. They left a safe and when they returned with a search warrant, it was gone: miamiherald.com/news/local/cri…
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The Miami Herald published Perversion of Justice, a three-part series about the sweetheart plea deal given to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein:
Part 1: HOW A FUTURE TRUMP CABINET MEMBER GAVE A SERIAL SEX ABUSER THE DEAL OF A LIFETIME
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Part 3: EVEN FROM JAIL, SEX ABUSER MANIPULATED THE SYSTEM. HIS VICTIMS WERE KEPT IN THE DARK
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