Jeffrey Epstein had multiple appointments, phone calls, and dinners with Matthew Menchel, the Miami AUSA who spearheaded Epstein's sweetheart deal in 2007. A tranche of over 8,500 pages of records from Epstein's estate, released by the House Oversight Committee, show that Epstein's calendars and emails reflect that Menchel, who left the DOJ in 2007, had multiple meetings or dinners with Epstein in 2011, 2013, and 2017. Lawmakers also referred to a photograph of Menchel on a ski trip with Epstein sometime in the 2000s, but didn't produce the photo. When contacted by the Miami Herald, Menchel re-iterated a 2020 statement: "I had no business relationship with Mr. Epstein at any point, not before, during or after my tenure at the US Attorney's Office."
Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 deal allowed the pedophile to escape federal sex trafficking charges that could have put him in prison for life. It also gave immunity to others involved in his crimes, many of whom have never been identified. Federal prosecutors in South Florida minimized Epstein's abuse of almost 100 underage girls and worked closely with Epstein's high-powered attorneys to keep the scope of his crimes secret. Federal prosecutors in NY re-examined the case, and Epstein was arrested again in 2019 on more serious sex trafficking charges. However, he died nearly a month later in federal custody, in what was ruled a suicide by hanging.
Like Pandora's Box, Dummkopf Trumpf, the former Prince Andrew, ex-Israeli PM Ehud Barak, ex-POTUS Bill Clinton, and other luminaries do not want the lurid Jeffrey Epstein files released. Others have described the Epstein files as a "ticking timebomb" for the Trumpf junta. Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved to a minimum security prison and there is speculation the notorious sex trafficker may be pardoned, or have her sentenced commuted like mountebank George Santos, by Dummkopf Trumpf.
... the Miami Herald ...
Yeah, the Miami Herald journalists have published some great reporting on this issue ...
For example ...
How a future Trump Cabinet member gave a serial sex abuser the deal of a lifetime (2018)
www.miamiherald.com
... On a muggy October morning in 2007, Miami's top federal prosecutor, Alexander Acosta, had a breakfast appointment with a former colleague, Washington, D.C., attorney Jay Lefkowitz. It was an unusual meeting for the then-38-year-old prosecutor, a rising Republican star who had served in several White House posts before being named U.S. attorney in Miami by President George W. Bush. Instead of meeting at the prosecutor's Miami headquarters, the two men -- both with professional roots in the prestigious Washington law firm of Kirkland & Ellis -- convened at the Marriott in West Palm Beach, about 70 miles away.
For Lefkowitz, 44, a U.S. special envoy to North Korea and corporate lawyer, the meeting was critical.
His client, Palm Beach multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, 54, was accused of assembling a large, cult-like network of underage girls -- with the help of young female recruiters -- to coerce into having sex acts behind the walls of his opulent waterfront mansion as often as three times a day, the Town of Palm Beach police found.
The eccentric hedge fund manager, whose friends included former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew, was also suspected of trafficking minor girls, often from overseas, for sex parties at his other homes in Manhattan, New Mexico and the Caribbean, FBI and court records show. ...
So-called "Prince" Andrew reportedly hired a bodyguard to dig up dirt on the late Virginia Giuffre for a "smear campaign': www.thesun.co.uk
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