Both the Trump and Biden administrations are under scrutiny for doing “little to nothing to bring justice for the survivors” and failing to prosecute all but one of Epstein’s co-conspirators.
https://www.beltway.news/p/former-us-attorneys-general-bondi
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During a field hearing on Tuesday in Palm Beach, Florida, Democratic members of the House Oversight Committee detailed 30 years of prosecutorial failures that allowed Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation to flourish into a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise.
>Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the committee’s ranking member, argued that systemic failures beginning in Palm Beach continued through both Trump administrations and remained largely unaddressed under the Biden administration. Aside from the conviction of Epstein associate Ghislane Maxwell, no additional alleged co-conspirators were prosecuted by Biden’s Department of Justice, while Trump’s DOJ has repeatedly claimed that there is not enough evidence to charge anyone else with a crime.
>“I want to understand why Merrick Garland and the former Justice Department under the Biden administration did little to nothing to bring justice for the survivors or have additional prosecutions,” said Garcia. “Merrick Garland, for me, is at the top of that list of folks that we need to speak to and ask questions of.”
>Tuesday’s hearing outlined how law enforcement and government prosecutors repeatedly bent over backwards to accommodate Epstein after his first arrest in 2006. Women who survived years of abuse described how the justice system not only failed them, but was often used against them. After Epstein pleaded guilty to solicitation of a minor, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw approved unsupervised work release privileges that enabled him to continue his trafficking operation undeterred. Epstein would regularly tell his victims that if they went to the police, it was them, not him, who would be treated as the criminals.
>“Jeffrey had already threatened my friend, and he had told me that I would be charged with prostitution if I ever interacted with law enforcement,” said Dani Bensky, a dance choreographer who had been abused by Epstein when she was a minor. “He made it clear that he held the cards.”
Garland has A LOT to answer for, including this.
Just a reminder, there is NO federal statute of limitations on child sex trafficking. And anyone who obstructs or attempts to obstruct the enforcement of this statute faces as many as 20 years imprisonment.