Seized Photos of Nude Girls Deepens Questions About Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 Deal

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A trove of lewd photographs of girls, discovered in a safe inside the financier Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion the same day he was arrested, is deepening questions about why federal prosecutors in Miami had cut a deal that shielded him from federal prosecution in 2008.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Mr. Epstein on Monday with sex trafficking, dealing an implicit rebuke to that plea agreement, which was overseen by Alexander Acosta, then the United States attorney in Miami and now President Trump’s labor secretary.

The indictment in Manhattan could prompt a moment of reckoning for the Justice Department, which for years has wrestled with accusations that it mishandled the earlier case and has faced a barrage of litigation from Mr. Epstein’s accusers. In February, the Justice Department opened its own internal review into the matter.

Attorney General William P. Barr said on Monday during a trip to South Carolina that he had recused himself from the case because Mr. Barr’s former law firm, Kirkland & Ellis, had represented Mr. Epstein.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/seized-photos-of-nude-girls-deepens-questions-about-jeffrey-epsteins-2008-deal/ar-AAE23pv?li=BBnbcA1

Barr, Acosta and Trump, sounds like there might be quite a kompromat going on.

[Cirque du So-What]

1. Kompromat schmompromat

Pandora's box has been opened, and no further efforts at cover-up can close the lid. Reap the whirlwind, MFers!

[Throck]

2. Money buys a lot of stuff.

Lots of money buys privilege and favors.

[dameatball]

3. If you haven't seen it yet, Barr UN-recused himself earlier today.

It's almost as if someone may have been upset with him causing a change of heart.

[RockRaven]

4. Yet another reason to dispense with the idea that the rich are rich because they are smarter

than the rest of us.

There is nothing remotely smart about a convicted, notorious, publicly-known sex criminal keeping in his possession CDs of nude girls' pictures. That is not only immoral/evil, but very, very dumb.

And very dangerous, from a selfish self-interest standpoint -- which is supposedly one of the characteristics of these uber-rich people which allowed them to get so rich. It is almost like these rich people *didn't actually* build their wealth by being better at acting in rational self-interest than the rest of us...

Maybe they got there by being moral monsters of one variety or another. It seems to be a unifying feature of most of them.

[Trenzalore]

5. I cannot imagine he was more cautious in the 2000s

Did they execute a search warrant at any of his properties than? If not why not?