Ken Starr helped Jeffrey Epstein Avoid Prosecution for Sex Trafficking Underage Girls

[CousinIT]

Ken Starr, the lawyer who hounded Bill Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky, waged a “scorched-earth” legal campaign to persuade federal prosecutors to drop a sex-trafficking case against the billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein relating to the abuse of multiple underaged girls, according to a new book.

In Perversion of Justice the Miami Herald reporter Julie K Brown writes about Starr’s role in securing the secret 2008 sweetheart deal that granted Epstein effective immunity from federal prosecution. The author, who is credited with blowing open the cover-up, calls Starr a “fixer” who “used his political connections in the White House to get the Justice Department to review Epstein’s case”.

Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announces charges against Ghislaine Maxwel in New YorkAudrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York speaks alongside William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office, at a news conference announcing charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein in New York City, New York, U.S., July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

The book says that emails and letters sent by Starr and Epstein’s then criminal defense lawyer Jay Lefkowitz show that the duo were “campaigning to pressure the Justice Department to drop the case”. Starr had been brought into “center stage” of Epstein’s legal team because of his connections in Washington to the Bush administration.

Perversion of Justice will be published next week. The Guardian obtained a copy.

When Epstein’s lawyers appeared to be failing in their pressure campaign, with senior DoJ officials concluding that Epstein was ripe for federal prosecution, Starr pulled out the stops. Brown discloses that he wrote an eight-page letter to Mark Filip, who had just been confirmed as deputy US attorney general, the second most powerful prosecutor in the country.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/13/ken-starr-jeffrey-epstein-book

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Ken Starr should spend some time in hell fire after he dies, but he'll probably feel at home.

It's his environment.

[uponit7771]

2. The slimiest people around somehow make they're way to the Republican party

[NullTuples]

30. It attracts them, it's the party of plunder and rule-breaking.

[Botany]

3. And as President of Baylor Ken Starr protected football players from charges of rape ....

... and sexual assault after hounding President Clinton over a consensual blow job between
adults. Starr and the Republicans "Whitewater" attacks on Clinton tied him up from getting
bin Laden who the Clinton White House and US Intel had IDed as a threat to America.

[smirkymonkey]

6. What a disgusting hypocrite!

These people are really just the scum of the earth.

[wnylib]

21. But if Bin Laden had been captured or

eliminated in the Clinton administration, what excuse would Republicans have had for going to war in the ME? It was an urgent priority for energy companies, doncha know? Especially for Halliburton.

(For the irony challenged, that was sarcasm.)

[NullTuples]

31. It's not consensual between an intern & the POTUS

There's a massive, massive power inequality. If it were any other workplace he'd have been charged with harassment at the very least and possibly rape.

Not that Republicans haven't done even worse. But let's not pretend Bill Clinton was an angel.

[Random Boomer]

32. Thank you. n/t

[hadEnuf]

36. I doubt he would have been charged with any of that.

But to some I guess the flag really was falling.

[Botany]

38. Monica had sex with a teacher in high school, sex w/a professor in college, sex w/her 1st boss ...

... and when she went to the White House she pursued a relationship with the President she was
over 21 and hardly a lost little girl. I agree with you 100% that President Clinton NEVER should
have had a sexual relationship her or anybody else @ the White House it was a huge mistake but
the court where it might have wound up at was divorce court not being impeached. Somehow I
think Bill and Hillary have some kind of agreement but that is between them and part of their
private lives and none of my business.

Just my 2 cents. I don't mean to offend you or how you see it.

[StevieM]

39. Not true.

An employer having sexual activity with a subordinate does not constitute rape. It may get them fired, but it does not meet the definition of assault.

As for the power imbalance, Monica Lewinsky testified at the time that she vigorously pursued Bill Clinton, wanted the relationship, and began planning to go after him before she even got to the White House. That doesn't mean that Clinton wasn't still to blame, since he was older and more powerful. But it does mean that Monica was not bullied or manipulated into a situation that she didn't want.

[2Gingersnaps]

69. It makes me wonder what century we live in,

where women are not entitled to their sexuality, or advanced educations, or professional status. Not saying that pursuing a married man is not wrong, pursuing your married boss is nuts, and, just guessing, if your boss is the President, and right wing nut jobs are hypocrites, if this guy is "gettable" he has judgement issues. Maybe we need to take a look at that "Welcome to Gilead" post. Underage children-our nations naughty secret. Bought and paid for trophy foreign brides-classy (in some quarters). Respectful marriage between friends of equal status...........a danger to all we hold dear? Something is wrong with this picture.

[intheflow]

61. Both were adults.

Monica was 22. Yes, there was a huge power imbalance, but that doesn’t mean Lewinsky wasn’t willing. Please don’t infantize her or her sexuality.

[JI7]

64. Nope, it is not rape and never would be charged as rape. And it IS Consensual since both were

legally adults.

At worst it might be a violation of a policy in some places which would not allow such relationships . But not a state crime.

[dsp3000]

60. This scumbag was the president of Baylor? Unbelievable

Nt

[2Gingersnaps]

67. And let us never forget the leaker in Chief on Ken Starr's staff,

the go too guy for insider gossip, one Brett Kavanaugh. Good thing Clinton didn't politicize his DOJ, and investigate reporters to find the source of those illegal leaks, then they might have had a real issue to prosecute him on. Oh wait........

[malaise]

4. What was Bush's role?

Asking for a friend

[wnylib]

25. What was Trump's role?

I expect that he was among those who pushed for Starr to protect Epstein.

[wnylib]

26. Also wondering if anyone paid

Starr for his Epstein intervention and who it was.

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. Ken Starr

is a disgusting excuse for a human being. I remember when he was hired at Baylor and they spoke of him as a "Christian gentleman". I about puked, but then I remembered it was the Southern Baptist Church speaking, and their definition of "Christian gentleman" is pretty close to racist @$$hole.

[BComplex]

46. I second everything you just said.

Southern Baptist church IS the devil.

[dsc]

7. The utter sanctimony of this partisan hack is literally without bound

It is literally unimaginable that any Democratic person of any sort could get away with this in terms of his press coverage and treatment by pundits. The blatant hypocrisy is breath taking.

[wnylib]

23. So it's time to make this as

big of a publicity issue as the Clinton investigation was.

Plaster it everywhere in social media. Demand that it be covered in MSM. Make every sleazy detail of it front page gossip.

Maybe it's time for further investigations into WHY Starr was so invested in protecting Epstein. Just what was Starr's connection to him?

[malaise]

35. THIS

[JI7]

65. There needs to be a movie made on this scumbag with focus on his defending actual sexual

assault.

[msfiddlestix]

8. Good! Exposing Ken Starr for his shameless greed, hypocrisy, corruption and perversion will

be one for Justice, even if it isn't playing out in court as it should be.

[young_at_heart]

9. I wonder how he sleeps at night?

The fact that he had any association with Epstein whatsoever is appalling!! Is there no sense of shame? There certainly should be.

[GB_RN]

11. Sociopaths...

Don't have consciences.

[young_at_heart]

15. Yes....I didn't think of that!

One wonders just how many sociopaths are in leadership positions?

[GB_RN]

16. Most Of The GOPQ...

[mac56]

17. How he sleeps at night

Hanging upside down by his feet in a cave?

[Scrivener7]

10. So glad she wrote this book! This ALL needs to come out and they all need

to be smeared with what they did for and with that monster.

[MagickMuffin]

12. How many little girls was Ken Starr promised?

Asking for a friend.

[peppertree]

14. +1

Or little boys, in his case.

[Botany]

22. One of the worst kept secrets was The Limited's owner Les Wexner relationship to Epstein and ....

... that Les' choice for "romance" was on the younger and male side. Jeffery's "real work" was not
financial management but sex trafficking and blackmail.

[peppertree]

49. Oh, my

[2Gingersnaps]

70. Exactly!

[Jilly_in_VA]

47. 72 Virgins?

Oh wait, wrong religion. 72 Virginians?

[peppertree]

13. And no doubt, partook himself

Starr has hypocrite creep written all over him. I wouldn't put Satanic rites past him either.

[IronLionZion]

18. Qanon keeps missing GOP child predators

Gross Old Perverts

[BradAllison]

29. Its almost like they.....

Aren't good at this or have some....sort...of vested interest........

[Klaralven]

19. That would indicate that Epstein's operation was for US intelligence as well as Israeli intelligence

[Aviation Pro]

20. Of fucking course

...fuck him....

[bringthePaine]

24. Starr was easily seen for the feckless piece of shit he always was and is

[Martin68]

27. One more ingot of lead on the negative side of the balance where Starr's sins are

weighed against his good deeds.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

28. Ken Starr is a fixer OMFG

it's like leaving the devil in charge or just the last 4 years of leadership from TFG!

This whole justice department is slippery and needs some big time house cleaning.

[Jimvanhise]

33. KEN STARR LIED TO CONGRESS

Ken Starr was originally appointed to investigate the Whitewater land deal which was supposedly fishy but which went nowhere. Starr even jailed a friend of the Clintons for saying she knew nothing about it and he accused her of lying. Her ex-husband visited her in jail and told her that if she tells Starr whatever he wants to hear they could make a lot of money because some rich people were out to bring down the Clintons. The woman was finally released and Starr pursued the Monica story instead, which didn't happen until a year after he was hired. After he presented his findings to Congress, it was pointed out to him that his report said nothing about what he did during the first year of his term when he was investigating Whitewater. He said he'd file that as an addendum to the report, but he never did.

[dchill]

34. Alas, where did shock value go, anyway?

[ffr]

40. Lock him up too! But also dig into Epstein's political donation history

Apparently, it's the keys to the whole GOP/Republican/Conservative Universe of pedophiles, sex traffickers, blackmail and other illegal activities.

We're going to need a bigger prison system!!!

[roamer65]

41. NOT SURPRISED ONE BIT.

[calimary]

42. Yet another reason to hate ken starr

[Jilly_in_VA]

48. Like we needed one?

There were already more than enough. It's like putting magnets on the refrigerator.

[GoCubsGo]

43. The same Ken Starr who sent agents pawing through Hillary's underwear drawer in search of

"evidence" of Whitewater crimes??? That figures.

[NEOBuckeye]

44. What a shitstain

Truly a lowlife piece of scum he is.

[Bo Zarts]

45. President Clinton went after Big Tobacco, so Big Tobacco went after Clinton .. with Ken Starr.

I know these two things as facts:

1. During the inquisition of Clinton, Ken Starr was regularly flying on the Gulfstream IIIs of Philip Morris USA.

2. Prior to the inquisition of Clinton, Kenn Starr was outside counsel for Philip Morris USA. After Ken Starr became the independent counsel (1994–99) who headed the investigation that led to the impeachment of Clinton, his relationship as outside counsel for Philip Morris become murky. Presumably, he severed those ties to the big tobacco conglomerate. But he still took flights in their Gulfstream jets.

These are not a facts, just my opinions:

1. "Severed those ties to Philip Morris" my ass. "Call .... for ...... Ken Starr!" (with a little echo). You've got to be an old-timer to remember the origins of that, and know who Johhny Roventini was.

2. Ken Starr was, is, and will forever be the quintessential slimeball. Fuck him, and feed him Rice Krispies (or, as George Carlin sang: "Snap, Crackle, Fuck Him" ).


https://vimeo.com/265263630

[Solly Mack]

50. I read the Starr Report and it read like the writer took a prurient delight in the salacious.

Starr truly enjoyed writing that report and he enjoyed even more turning it into more of soft porn short story - not as to attack Clinton so much as it satisfied something inside himself. That's how it read to me anyway. Like Starr was more than a little bent.

I am not the least bit surprised by the information in the OP.

[Lonestarblue]

66. And don't forget that Brett Kavanaugh worked for Starr.

He was party to the effort to sow doubt about Vince Foster’s death and to making up salacious content for the report. His lies on the Clinton investigation certainly qualified him as a Trump appointee to the SC. Now we’re stuck with him unless Democrats win big majorities at some future time and remake the SC or at least institute term limits without grandfathering current justices.

[Kid Berwyn]

51. Ken Starr on Bill Barr

The Integrity of William Barr

He should not be required to recuse himself from the Mueller investigation.

— Jan. 16, 2019, New York Times Op Ed

Bill Barr’s father hired college dropout Jeffrey Epstein to teach at the exclusive NYC prep academy, The Dalton School.

https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107

[UpInArms]

52. Ken Starr, Baylor President, Reportedly Fired Amid Football Sex Abuse Scandal

05/25/2016

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Baylor University declined to comment on reports on Tuesday that Kenneth Starr, the former independent counsel charged with investigating Bill Clinton during his presidency who is now the president of the world’s largest Baptist college, has been fired over sexual abuse scandals at the school.

In the past several months, the central Texas university has faced criticism of not doing enough to investigate reports of rapes of female students by its male athletes.

Local TV broadcaster KCEN reported on Tuesday that Starr had been fired, citing sources close to the Board of Regents.

“We will not respond to rumors, speculation or reports based on unnamed sources, but when official news is available, the University will provide it. We expect an announcement by June 3,” the school said in a statement.

In March, a former student at Baylor brought a negligence lawsuit in federal court against the school, claiming it acted callously and indifferently after she was raped by a Baylor football player.

In a separate scandal, Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu was sentenced last year by a Texas judge to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a fellow student in 2013.

That incident raised questions about how Baylor investigates sexual assaults. The judge in the trial deemed the school’s investigation so insufficient that he barred defense from citing it.

More at:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/baylor-president-reportedly-fired-amid-football-sex-abuse-scandal_n_57456b08e4b0dacf7ad37026

Seems as though Starr only pursued a scandal when it was a Democratic politician ….

[live love laugh]

53. Hypocrisy is their main prerequisite. nt

[Blue Owl]

54. That Starr needs to implode

Collapse in upon thyself, Kenneth...

[hunter]

55. Ken Starr has some ugly shit in his closet.

That makes him a tool.

[Mr. Ected]

56. I think every single whacked out accusation that Q lodges against Democrats

Is rooted in fact in the seedy Republican swamp.

[llmart]

57. This doesn't surprise me at all.

All during the Clinton fiasco whenever I would see Starr's ugly mug I would think, "That guy's a perv and is more than likely knee deep in his own salacious doings." As someone else on here said, in reading the report on the investigation it seemed to me that Starr was getting off on the nitty gritty details.

So much scum in the GOP. I lived in the South and don't get me started on the hypocrisy and repression of Southern Baptists. Until I moved there, I had no idea what their teachings were, but I found out plenty from people who were raised in that church.

[Captain Zero]

58. To me, that confirms Starr was an Epstein customer

nt

[dixiechiken1]

62. This ☝️☝️☝️

[Mike Nelson]

59. Ugh...

... why hasn't someone written a book on Ken Starr? It should be full of everything publishers want in a best-selling book!

[fescuerescue]

63. They should prosecute the lawyers that defended Epstein

Starting with Ken Starr.

And then prosecute the lawyers that defend the lawyers.

[Upthevibe]

68. Ken Starr is a horrific

p.o.s.

[CousinIT]

71. MORE on Starr and his penchant for protecting rapists like Brett Kavanaugh, too..

It appears Starr wants the US Constitution and our laws tossed in the shitter and instead supports judges for lifetime appointments who will 'rule' according to HIS interpretation of the Bible, namely that girls and women are chattel, to be raped and impregnated and forced into incubation, childbirth and motherhood whether they chose that or not. Basically, sexual and reproductive slavery. These 'American Taliban' are the driving force behind most judicial appointments in the US today and they are DANGEROUS extremists who wish to deny human rights to more than half the US population - namely women and people of color, as well as the poor, all based on THEIR interpretation of the Bible.

. . .

It is undeniably fitting that this account should turn on the cliché of the scarlet letter. For somehow Starr’s role as the nation’s parson always comes back around to sex. Perhaps his fascination was heightened early on by his involvement in the Packwood Diaries scandal, but most notably, of course, was his 1998 pursuit of former president Clinton over his sexual relationship with a White House intern, which was bookended by his recent impeachment foray, this time defending an adulterous President, who lies about so much more sin than that. And in between he zealously took up the cause of a Supreme Court nominee accused of sexual assault, Jeffrey Epstein, a Baylor University football player accused of rape and even a schoolteacher in suburban Virginia found guilty of molesting 5 young school girls. And even still, in 2021, he published his latest book extolling the virtues of intersecting religion and the judiciary. Starr is “all in” for ramming the most extreme of White conservative judges, experienced or not, that will decide human fates based on Christian beliefs into federal, life-tenured seats. Forget the separation of church and state! That’s not what the founding fathers intended according to him.

I can date the beginning of my own rebirth to July 9, 2018, the day Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court. I sent Starr a text saying, “You said to me 20 years ago, that Brett was ‘going places’ Clearly!” [punctuation sic] It was my first communication to Starr in memory that went unanswered, and I wondered if he picked up that my message had a bit of an edge. I had met Kavanaugh in 1998 when he was a 33-year-old member of then, Independent Counsel Starr’s team investigating Bill Clinton, and I was a 39-year-old strategic communications consultant hired to help prep Starr to present Congress with his legendary report detailing President Bill Clinton’s sexual interactions with a Monica Lewinsky. One day after a meeting at the independent counsel offices, I was alone in a conference room collecting materials when Kavanaugh entered. He began berating me and invading my personal space in a deranged fury that sent me into flight around the table.

After I invoked “Judge Starr” a few times, a deflated Kavanaugh left, but I felt duty bound to report the incident to Starr. As my client, he needed to be informed about anything that might raise a red flag, and my pulse rate told me this was one. Starr reacted with seeming surprise, saying Brett was probably being protective of him, and moreover was destined for great things — possibly the Supreme Court. “Not if he treats women like that he won’t,” I replied. I then asked Ken to seek an apology from Brett on my behalf and was told, “I’m apologizing to you for him. This is it.” Hence my text to Starr in 2018 acknowledging his prediction.

As Kavanaugh’s confirmation process proceeded, I had no plans to come forward about that encounter. Though I found Christine Blasey Ford credible when she described being assaulted by Kavanaugh as a teenager, I wasn’t sure about the relevance of my experience, which, though quite aggressive and unsettling, was not physically violent and I did not suspect it was alcohol-fueled because at the time I didn’t know that Kavanaugh had been a well-known blackout drunk in college. It was only when I saw his snarling “refutation” of Blasey Ford that I realized that his almost feral belligerence in that conference room more than 20 years earlier had not been a one-off.

https://medium.com/judihershman/ken-starr-brett-kavanaugh-jeffrey-epstein-and-me-ba2dbf77b0da