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Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2019 17:39:55 GMT
Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre appeared Tuesday outside a federal courtroom in Manhattan to reiterate her allegation that the financier, who killed himself earlier this month, ordered her to have sex with Britain's Prince Andrew. She called on him to "come clean" about it. Her remarks came after an extraordinary court hearing was called by the judge in the Epstein case as a way to give voice to alleged victims after the financier's death. Last week, Buckingham Palace released a statement denying the allegations against Andrew after a London tabloid released a video purporting to show him in 2010 at Epstein's Upper East Side townhouse waving goodbye to an unidentified woman.
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Post by Admin on Aug 28, 2019 20:30:07 GMT
A British actress publicly identified herself as a victim of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for the first time in court Tuesday. Anouska De Georgiou appeared alongside 15 other women in a Manhattan court to implore U.S. District Judge Richard Berman and prosecutors to go after those who allegedly conspired and enabled Epstein’s crimes. De Georgiou, who starred alongside Jude Law in the 2004 film “Alfie,” claims she was a teenager when she was introduced to the late billionaire. “When I was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein, I was young and full of hope and the foolishness of a teenager. I was idealistic, and I saw the good in people,” she said in court, according to the New York Post. “The abuse, spanning several years, was devaluing beyond measure and affected my ability to form and maintain healthy relationships, both in my work and my personal life.”
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Post by Admin on Sept 11, 2019 19:14:12 GMT
Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein was seen getting off his private plane in the U.S. Virgin Islands by an air traffic controller with girls who appeared to be 11 to 12 years old in 2018, a year before he was indicted on child sex trafficking charges, newly revealed government documents show.
Epstein on other occasions was seen at the St. Thomas airport in the latter half of 2018 getting “off the plane with young girls,” including at least one other time when the air traffic controller saw him with a girl who appeared to be between 16 and 18 years old, documents show.
The air traffic controller told U.S. Marshals Service investigators about Epstein traveling with underage girls on July 10, 2019, a week after he was arrested at a New Jersey airport on child sex trafficking charges.
Those same government documents reveal that six months before Epstein was arrested, the Marshals Service began investigating whether the registered sex offender had violated federal law by failing to disclose all of the countries he visited.
One document shows that Epstein not only failed to tell officials of two other countries he ended up visiting, but that he also notified them of his planned travel just four days before he planned to leave the United States — which was 17 days less than the minimum amount of notice he was required by law to give.
The documents released by the Justice Department and Marshals Service were disclosed by the Web site MuckRock, which specializes in making public document requests and detailing their results.
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Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2019 17:10:07 GMT
While MIT engages in damage control following revelations the university’s Media Lab accepted millions of dollars in funding from Jeffrey Epstein, a renowned computer scientist at the university has fanned the flames by apparently going out of his way to defend the accused sex trafficker—and child pornography in general. Richard Stallman has been hailed as one of the most influential computer scientists around today and honored with a slew of awards and honorary doctorates, but his eminence in the academic computer science community came into question Friday afternoon when purportedly leaked email excerpts showed him suggesting one of Epstein’s alleged victims was “entirely willing.” An MIT engineering alumna, Selam Jie Gano, published a blog post calling for Stallman’s removal from the university in light of his comments, along with excerpts from the email in which Stallman appeared to defend both Epstein and Marvin Minsky, a lauded cognitive scientist and founder of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab who was accused of assaulting Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre has alleged that sex offender and financier Epstein trafficked her to powerful men for sex, including Minsky, who died in 2016. She’s alleged that Epstein and his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her at Mar-a-Lago when she was 16 years old.
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Post by Admin on Sept 15, 2019 19:35:12 GMT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is launching an investigation into its interactions with sex offender and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The university — one of the most prominent in the United States — received about US$800,000 in donations from the disgraced financier over two decades. MIT president Rafael Reif announced the investigation on 22 August in an e-mail to the university community. All of Epstein’s donations went to either the MIT Media Lab, an interdisciplinary research centre, or to physics professor Seth Lloyd, Reif said. “To my great regret, despite following the processes that have served MIT well for many years, in this instance we made a mistake of judgment,” he added. The MIT inquiry will be led by the university’s provost, electrical engineer Martin Schmidt. Representatives of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, university declined Nature’s request for further comment on the matter. In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida to two state felony charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution. He served more than a year in prison. In July of this year, he pleaded not guilty in a federal court in New York to charges of running a sex-trafficking ring of underage girls. Epstein died by suicide in a New York City jail earlier this month while awaiting trial. Epstein donated millions of dollars to support scientific research over more than a decade, and cultivated relationships with prominent scientists before and after his conviction in 2008.
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