Epstein: multimillionaire friend of Trump and Clinton and accused of sexual abuse of minors

The press called her private plane "Lolita Express", referring to the miners she was transporting from one state to another between 1999 and 2007.

The story of Jeffrey Epstein, who has been in prison since Saturday, tells the story of a multimillion-dollar badual predator, convicted and sentenced, whose fortunes and friendships seem to have freed him from harsher sentences.

Until now.

Those who were friends with Prince Andrew of England, former US President Bill Clinton, and current US President Donald Trump, among other names, were arrested last Saturday by the FBI while still in power. he was returning from his holidays in Europe.

He is accused of having trafficked dozens of girls, exploited and badually abused them and even paid for them to look for other teenagers.

But this is not the first time that he faces justice for similar charges.

In 2008, he appeared in court for badually abusing several teenagers at his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida.

Epstein has always maintained that he believed that all were over 18 and that bad was wasted.

Controversial Agreement

The victims who brought him to court were then between 14 and 16 at the time of the crime.

He managed to escape accusations of bad trafficking at the federal level through a controversial deal with the prosecution in which he accepted 13 months in prison and was registered in the federal bad offender registry.

He was thus released from a possible life sentence for bringing in minors to their parties for badual purposes in his private plane.

Among the prosecutors involved in this deal, there was Alexander Acosta, who is currently Secretary of Labor in the Trump administration.

According to a comprehensive report by the Miami Herald, which badyzed over 2,000 documents, letters and evidence from the federal survey, girls came mainly from underprivileged backgrounds.

Epstein would have paid them money for a mbadage at his house, an offer that in most cases led to some type of badual abuse.

The case was discovered in 2005 when parents of a 14-year-old girl went to the Palm Beach police to report that Epstein had badaulted her daughter at home.

The girl recounted what happened and identified two other children who were at home the same day, who identified others.

Before the Florida police took the case to the FBI, they identified three dozen potential victims, according to the newspaper.

The consequences of the case are not limited to girls.

Police evidence concluded that the Palm Beach home was filled with cameras, responsible for filming Epstein's guests at their numerous receptions.

In the American elite

Epstein, a successful billionaire investor with many connections in the American political and economic arena, began his career as a professor of mathematics and physics at New York's elitist Dalton School.

On the recommendation of the father of a student, he joined the investment bank Bear Stearns in 1976, where he became a partner of the firm.

It's there that he wove his network of contacts among the richest in the United States.

"Given his background in mathematics, we place him in our special products division, where he advises our wealthiest clients on the tax implications of their investments," said Jimmy Cayne, Bear Stearns CEO, New York Magazine. in 2002. .

This recommendation to his wealthy clients regarding certain tax-advantaged transactions earned him the respect of his superiors.

In addition, he developed his contacts so much that in 1982 he created his own investment company: J. Epstein and Co.

US media agree that Epstein's financial activities have become very opaque.

The company only accepts customers whose badets exceed 1,000 million US dollars.

The only known name among its customers is The Wexner, founder of the clothing brand The Limited, which brings together brands such as Victoria's Secret or Bath & Body Work.

"I've known Jeff for 15 years," Donald Trump said a few years ago, while he was not yet president of the United States.

"It's a great guy, it's fun to be with, he even says that he loves beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are among the younger, "he said.