Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier, managed to evade federal prosecution a decade ago in a Florida sex case involving dozens of teenage girls, in part by agreeing to register as a sex offender. But for a man with many residences, and many high-powered lawyers, registering as a sex offender was not the blanket penalty it might seem.
He did register in Florida, where he pleaded guilty to two state felony charges. But in New York, where he owns one of Manhattan’s most expensive mansions, he managed to avoid check-ins with the authorities by changing his official residence to the Virgin Islands. And in New Mexico, where he owned a palatial residence south of Santa Fe, he was able to avoid inclusion in the state’s registry entirely.
That state’s relatively cursory investigation took into account only a police report which indicated, the authorities said, that the underage victim in the case to which Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2010 was 17 — the age of consent in New Mexico — though the girl whose report launched the investigation against him was just 14.
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In NY the woman prosecutor recommended in favor of him registering as a level 1 offender-least restrictions! The judge overruled and assigned a level 3 the most serious. At yesterday's bail review the current judge brought this up saying he has NEVER seen a prosecutor do such a thing. No doubt that woman prosecutor is a democrat and like all democrats look past and even approve of perversions and rape and child sexual assault so long as he was a big time democrat donor.
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But Joe Biden doesn't have to register at all.
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