“News on the Maxwell case isn’t good. SDNY Acting AG Audrey Strauss has stepped down. Lucas Issacharoff has replaced her. Who [is] he?
Brace yourselves – James Comey’s son-in-law. Swamp water runs deep in the veins of that lot.”
” . . . In a sign that shows just how deep the swamp is, while Comey was defending his seemingly treasonous acts, his son-in-law, Lucas Issacharoff, was named lead lawyer for the feds in Manhattan on the Ghislaine Maxwell case.”
“Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein and alleged madam who is accused of procuring young girls for him, has been arrested in New Hampshire. The FBI took her into custody on Thursday morning and she is due to appear in a federal court later, NBC News reports, citing two unnamed sources.”
“The just-unsealed indictment charges stem from Maxwell’s role “in the sexual exploitation and abuse of multiple minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein” as early as 1994, court papers say.
“The victims were as young as 14 years old when they were groomed and abused by Maxwell and Epstein, both of whom knew that certain victims were in fact under the age of 18,” the indictment says.
She is specifically accused of grooming three underage victims for sex with Epstein in places including his Upper East Side townhouse, Florida, New Mexico and London.”
” . . . Maxwell is charged with six counts — conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, enticement of a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, conspiracy to transport minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and two counts of perjury. Prosecutors also accuse Maxwell — a one-time girlfriend of Epstein’s — of repeatedly lying about her involvement in the financier’s sex trafficking ring during a 2016 deposition.”
“Prince Andrew has “completely shut the door” on cooperating with federal prosecutors continuing to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said Monday.
“Contrary to Prince Andrew’s very public offer to cooperate with our investigation into Epstein’s co-conspirators, an offer that was conveyed via press release, Prince Andrew has now completely shut the door on voluntary cooperation and our office is considering its options,” Berman said at an unrelated press conference.”
Opinion: It looks like the child rapist was just waiting for world news (stock market meltdown) to divert enough attention away from him to pull this trick – FC
“Clare Montgomery Q[C], the lawyer hired by Prince Andrew, has been referred to as “the most formidable member of the bar”, as she previously provided services to Chile’s former leader Augusto Pinochet and fugitive Indian tycoon Nirav Modi, wanted in the country’s most overwhelming fraud epic.” (We did not make up that name – FC)
Think about this.
Our money, given to the royal family, is being used to pay lawyers, to keep a man who is suspected of being involved in underage sex trafficking, away from justice or even just scrutiny.
“The question came when intelligence and national security officials gathered earlier this week to brief members of the House Intelligence Committee on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a law with some authorities that will expire in several weeks. Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, prefaced her question by saying it was a bit off-topic. According to two sources with knowledge of the briefing, Speier then asked John Demers, the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division at the Justice Department, whether Jeffrey Epstein had ever worked as an undercover FBI asset. Then she pressed him on whether he had any personal knowledge of Epstein—a convicted pedophile who died in jail last August, awaiting trial—working with the FBI.“
” . . . before the woman, who was 19 when questioned by federal agents in 2008, was able to testify, Epstein had secured a controversial non-prosecution agreement with the US Attorney’s Office in Miami by pleading guilty to two state prostitution charges. The alleged victim’s testimony was abruptly cancelled, while Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in a county jail.”
“A woman whose allegations of childhood sex abuse in New York were central to last year’s indictment of Jeffrey Epstein was questioned by the FBI and subpoenaed for testimony by federal prosecutors in Florida more than a decade ago in connection with the first federal investigation into Epstein’s alleged child sex trafficking, according to court documents and multiple sources familiar with the events. But the woman, who was 19 at the time of her initial contact with federal agents in 2008, did not appear before a grand jury in West Palm Beach, as the subpoena commanded. Before her testimony could be secured, Epstein cemented a controversial and once-secret non-prosecution agreement. . . . “ […and she was 14 when Epstein got a hold of her]
“PRINCE Andrew MUST know something about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, a lawyer for the financier’s alleged victims said today. US lawyer Lisa Bloom declared “he can only run for so long” after it emerged the 59-year-old was yet to speak with the FBI about his paedo pal. . . “
” . . . “To date, Prince Andrew has provided zero cooperation,” said [US Attorney of the Southern District of New York] Berman, appearing with members of nonprofit victim services agency Safe Horizon.”
We are skeptical of the FBI who couldn’t find wrong-doing with Hillary’s basement server or with the Gen. Flynn fiasco or the infamous Weiner laptop etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., …. – FC
“Chauntae [ Davies ] has demanded that Andrew speak to FBI agents as they move to nail Epstein’s associates. Andrew insisted last week he had not noticed young girls surrounding Epstein. But Chauntae said: “I hope he is honest. There is no way you could have been a friend of Jeffrey’s and not know what was going on. “I don’t see how you could see somebody with another young girl all the time and there never being a conversation about it. It doesn’t add up.””
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