Denise George knew from the beginning that she was going up against powerful players on Wall Street over their supposed links to Jeffrey Epstein. But she soon sensed that she was also up against forces here at home, in the US Virgin Islands, where the financier seemed to have preyed on women and girls with impunity.
People in St. Thomas wanted the Epstein scandal — and the uncomfortable questions it was raising — to go away, and fast. But George says she needed time. She was fired as attorney general after spending more than three
Nice to see a news article about someone in the justice system having some sort of code of ethics.
If only she weren’t a seemingly small minority. And I know she probably isn’t–odds are, your average local judge or AG is not corrupt. But the higher you go up the chain, the more the odds seem to be in favor of corruption. At this point, I have far more respect for a county judge than a Supreme Court justice.
Meanwhile, countries are obliged to root out corruption before joining NATO. Maybe we should require rooting out corruption every year in order to stay in NATO instead.