BREAKING from the Miami Herald: Palm Beach sheriff opens internal affairs investigation into handlin

[MelissaB]

BREAKING from the Miami Herald: Palm Beach sheriff opens internal affairs investigation into handling of Jeffrey Epstein

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[MelissaB]

1. I'm out of clicks there.

Sorry! Can't post excerpt.

[Scurrilous]

5. The thing that surprises me about the Herald's great reporting on the Epstein affair...

...is that comes at a time when the Miami Herald print edition has been downsized into nothingness and the online version is hidden behind a paywall. It's back from the dead!

[Pluvious]

8. Next time try using your

... Browser's "private" or incognito mode.

That works for me with WP and Medium pages.

Sometimes you need to trim off the query string meta data off the URL (everything on the right side of the question mark).

Cheers

[Delmette2.0]

10. Awesome tip for all of us! Thank you.

[LiberalArkie]

11. Go in and erase the cookie for the site works just about every time

[lunatica]

12. This is great!

Thanks! Everything from the ? mark and after can be deleted.

[Pluvious]

14. Keep in mind...

That's not a universal rule. Such behavior is site specific.

[luvallpeeps]

19. wow, thanks. n/t

[Ninga]

2. May this internal affairs investigation reveal the truth. Hopeful people need hope. Nt

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

Specifically, it will look at the decision more than a decade ago to allow Epstein to be free 12 hours a day on work release while serving a short sentence in the county stockade on a prostitution-related charge.

On Friday, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw — the same sheriff who oversaw the controversial work release arrangement — ordered the investigation be done.

In the middle of the previous decade, Epstein was investigated for allegedly abusing young girls who were lured to his Palm Beach estate by recruiters. The girls, as young as 14, were told they would be giving a man a massage, then allegedly coerced into sex acts.

The U.S attorney’s office prepared a 53-page sex trafficking indictment against Epstein, but then, under pressure from Epstein’s team of lawyers, shelved the indictment and gave the case to the Palm Beach state attorney as part of a non-prosecution agreement.

After Epstein pleaded guilty to solicitation of a minor, a much lesser charge, he served a little more than a year in the county stockade rather than the decades-long sentence he could have faced under the federal indictment.

Moreover, the sheriff’s office allowed him to leave the jail for 12 hours a day, six days a week on “work release,” a decision that has been harshly criticized.

Last November, the Miami Herald published a series of articles, Perversion of Justice, that closely examined the non-prosecution agreement, including the U.S. attorney’s decision to keep the agreement secret from victims, in violation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. That series of articles also raised questions over whether Epstein, as a sex offender accused by dozens of underage girls, actually qualified for work release.

[zooks]

4. First time I've seen that video. Gut-wrenching.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. But who is going to investigate PB Sheriff Ric Bradshaw who approved the work release in first place

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NEW: But who is going to investigate PB Sheriff Ric Bradshaw who approved the work release in the first place ??? https://t.co/vnTXPWTUaz

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[Leghorn21]

16. +++ - so many BAD ACTORS in this digusting story

Julie K. Miami Herald

- hang tough

[blaze]

22. So the guy is investigating himself?

smh

[Botany]

7. Epstein is a monster and Trump's friend too

Trump went to those parties. Why is he in the White House?

Trump called Epstein a ‘terrific guy’ who enjoyed ‘younger’ women before denying relationship with him

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-called-epstein-a-terrific-guy-before-denying-relationship-with-him/2019/07/08/a01e0f00-a1be-11e9-bd56-eac6bb02d01d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3493b095f02c

[FakeNoose]

13. If any DUers have teenage daughters, be sure to warn them

... to stay away from Republicans.

[Beartracks]

17. Friends don't let friend's daughters date Republicans.

[Doitnow]

15. Is this also an investigation that Barr can stop?

[Beartracks]

18. IKR? Anyone thinks an investigation into themself is "unfair.". n/ t

[Ligyron]

20. Probably

But it might be good for a few laughs. If it is, it will be about the only thing even halfway amusing about this whole debacle.

[ProfessorPlum]

21. Great question

Can we charge Barr with obstruction of justice?