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Hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein charged with allegedly running a worldwide trafficking ring
Multi-millionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was charged today with sex trafficking.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readMulti-millionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was charged today with sex trafficking. He pled not guilty and was denied bail.
Last fall, a Miami Herald investigation identified at least 60 women who said Epstein abused them. The women said that as teenagers, they were lured to his mansion and forced into sex acts, then told to find more young girls for him.
More than a decade ago, Epstein avoided federal charges by making a secret plea with then-Florida federal prosecutor Alexander Acosta. He pled guilty to minor state crimes, and served about a year in a county jail. Alexander Acosta is now Labor Secretary.
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The full episode
1 of 5Is the big one imminent?- 0:00Hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein charged with allegedly running a worldwide trafficking ringYou’re reading this
- 11:03Jeffrey Epstein’s controversial 2008 plea deal and the latest in the battle to add a citizenship to the census
- 18:53Do the recent quakes tell us anything about the big one?
- 26:58The story of a teenager accused of manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself
- 39:32The relationship between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen