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Seems like the most reasonable explanation (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/funny@lemmy.world
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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 144 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Poor Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for sex trafficking to nobody.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The FBI raided his estate and seized all CCTV video footage. Release the video!

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not exactly true. The FBI opened the safe then left the Manhattan property. Epstein's lawyer then recovered the contents of the safe and delivered it to the FBI a few days later.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not exactly true, on the news, I personally saw videos of FBI agents walking out with clear bags of video recording equipment and videos.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Exactly true. The FBI agent said officers broke open the safe with a saw, finding the CDs, jewellery, computer hard drives, "loose diamonds", passports and “large amounts of US currency.” They took photographs of the items, but left them at the residence as they did not have the warrant to remove them. When they returned four days later, on July 11, they were no longer there. Agent Maguire, a member of an FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, said she then called Richard Kahn, Epstein’s lawyer who now serves as the executor of the later financier’s estate, to ask what happened to the items. “Twenty to thirty minutes after the conversation, Richard Kahn came to the residence and brought them items back in two suitcases,” Agent Maguire said. She could not confirm the content on the returned CDs was the same as the ones that were taken, but confirmed all the items were accounted for.

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The big red flag corruption for me. Why did the FBI open the safe if they knew they weren't allowed to remove its contents.

[–] catty@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I was referring to the St James island residence, not NY.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It would be fun to turn this into a gaussian splat

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[–] elvith@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Then there's still two possibilities:

  1. He was murdered to cover up $thing (innocent or not)
  2. All/most of it was true and he wanted an "easy escape"

Because of 1. I'm not sure if this would stop any arguments, though.

[–] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (19 children)

He killed himself. But his top clients still hold top positions in government.

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[–] Microw@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There has been evidence against him since the early 2000s that he abused girls and young women. He wiggled his way out of a case in 2008, but he knew it was over this time. It is absolutely thinkable that he killed himself in order to not have to actually go to prison.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

In 2008 he was protected by his influential clients. Second time around he was enough of a liability they instead got the evidence suppressed and made sure he couldn't make good on his blackmail threat.

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[–] Heliograph@mastodon.au 6 points 1 week ago

@cm0002 hah!

(#alttext: socmed post @TheOldManIsHere
I can't believe Epstein killed himself right before he was about to be acquitted due to a complete lack of evidence.)

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