Jeffrey Epstein Arrested, Charged with Sex Trafficking of Minors
July 6th, 2019Via: Bloomberg:
U.S. prosecutors have arrested fund manager Jeffrey Epstein and charged him with sex trafficking of minors, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Epstein, who had been previously accused of molesting young girls, is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court on Monday, according to the person, who declined to comment publicly because the charges remain private.
Suspicions about Epstein date back more than a decade, when his alleged victims said he used employees to bring local teen girls to his Florida mansion for sex and paid them to recruit new victims. The girls were as young as 13-years-old. Epstein eventually pleaded guilty in 2008 to two counts of soliciting a prostitute and served 13 months in a Florida state prison in Florida, while avoiding prosecution for federal sex-trafficking offenses.
