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Jeffrey Epstein faces sex trafficking and conspiracy charges

Jeffrey Epstein faces sex trafficking and conspiracy charges
Jeffrey Epstein by Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department is licensed under Wikimedia Commons Public Domain

NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven years after letting Jeffrey Epstein off lightly with a once-secret deal, federal prosecutors took another run at putting the billionaire financier behind bars on sex charges, accusing him Monday of abusing dozens of underage girls as young as 14.

Epstein, arrested over the weekend, was expected to make his first court appearance on the charges in the afternoon in New York City. Prosecutors were likely to argue he is a flight risk and should remain in jail instead of being released on bail to await trial.

Epstein, a 66-year-old hedge fund manager who once hobnobbed with some of the world’s most powerful people, was charged in an indictment unsealed Monday with sex trafficking and conspiracy. The charges carry up to life in prison.

He was accused of paying underage girls hundreds of dollars in cash for massages and then molesting them at his homes in Florida and New York. Epstein “intentionally sought out minors and knew that many of his victims were in fact under the age of 18,” prosecutors said. He also paid some of his victims to “recruit additional girls to be similarly abused by Epstein.”
Source: Associated Press
Jeffrey Epstein by Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department is licensed under Wikimedia Commons Public Domain

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