NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York has ordered a vast unsealing of court documents in early 2024 that will make public the names of scores of Jeffrey Epstein’s associates.
The documents are part of a settled civil lawsuit alleging Epstein’s one-time paramour Ghislaine Maxwell facilitated the sexual abuse of Virginia Giuffre. Terms of the 2017 settlement were not disclosed.
Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence after she was convicted of sex trafficking and procuring girls for Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
Anyone who did not successfully fight to keep their name out of the civil case could see their name become public – including Epstein’s victims, co-conspirators and innocent associates.
It’s beginning to look a lot like christmas…
Upcoming Headline: The entire judicial system fell out a window and shot itself 13 times in the back.
Man, I worry about the victims and innocent associates getting caught up in this. Surely those powerful enough to rape kids with Epstein were powerful enough to fight to keep their name out of the disclosure, a possibility mentioned in the article?
I do believe I remember reading that individuals could still appeal their inclusion.
is this going to be like that reddit safe thing
Turns out that Epstein brokered crimes for a lot of people whose names were solid black lines. It must be more common moniker than I thought.
Doesn’t matter. It’ll be just like the Panama Papers. There will be no accountability from anyone including the public.
woooohooooo finnallly! there is a whole cahort of scumbags sweatin this one out… the question is, will this lead to anything at all or will they just use this to focus on and harass the victims
Anyone who did not successfully fight to keep their name out of the civil case
So no. The rich and powerful are protected.
awwwwwwfuuuuuuuuuck thats just garbage. and i see this is just a freakin civil case
in america you can rape buy and sell children as long as youre rich enough
Lemmy is seeming more and more like a collection of useful idiots farming cynicism every day.
Hopefully the names can be released. Good to see from the judge.
No
-Bill Gates, probably
Articles must be relevant to US political news.
