MSNBC Panel: Trump Could Cite Clinton’s Association With Elite Pedophile

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MSNBC Panel: Trump Could Cite Clinton's Association With Elite Pedophile
"No one wants to talk about it, but that's the fact."
Steve Watson | Infowars.com - May 16, 2016
http://www.infowars.com/msnbc-panel-trump-could-cite-clintons-association-with-elite-pedophile/

  "In an intriguing exchange during MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday, the panel
   debated whether Donald Trump could use Bill Clinton's association with
   a high profile Pedophile as a way of defending himself against attacks
   from the Hillary campaign.
   
   

   
   Guest Donny Deutsch alluded to the "uncomfortable" reality of Bill
   Clinton's friendship with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
   
   While it has long been known that the two were friendly, a new book on
   Epstein by Conchita Sarnoff, of the Washington, D.C. based non-profit
   Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking, has revealed that Clinton
   flew on board Epstein's private jet dozens of times.
   
   The book cites flights logs for the plane, dubbed the "Lolita Express",
   with Clinton's name included in them. The logs show he took 26 flights,
   at least five of which he traveled without an entourage.
   
   "Here's the tennis game," Deutsch said on Morning Joe. "Donald Trump
   kissed a woman in a bathing suit. Trump hits back: Tell me about the
   president's relationship with a guy named Jeffrey Epstein. That's your
   tennis match."
   
   As he described Clinton's past with Epstein, Deutsch said "no one wants
   to talk about it, but that's the fact."
   
   "I will say this was a blind spot for me, because I'm not in New York
   circles," anchor Joe Scarborough replied. "This is something I have
   been hearing about for a year-and-a half. I don't know the whole story
   or anything, but I keep having reporters say, 'This is going to blow
   up.'"
   
   The other members on the panel agreed.
   
   "In some of the cases, the facts will be uncomfortable for the
   Clintons," panelist Mark Halperin said. Journalist Mike Barnicle
   predicted that the presidential race would become "incredibly ugly" in
   the weeks to come, while former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt added that
   he firmly expects that Trump will "go there."
   
   "When Hillary Clinton out there yesterday is talking about I'm going to
   put my husband in charge of reviving the economy in Kentucky for the
   coal miners, he's very much going to be a part of the campaign, and the
   Donald Trump campaign's going to do everything to make him an issue in
   the campaign," Schmidt said.
   
   Last week Fox News reported on the newly uncovered flight logs from
   Epstein's jet.
   
   "Bill Clinton ... associated with a man like Jeffrey Epstein, who
   everyone in New York, certainly within his inner circles, knew was a
   pedophile," said Conchita Sarnoff, the author the book on Epstein,
   which is titled "TrafficKing."
   
   "Why would a former president associate with a man like that?" Sarnoff
   urged.
   
   Sarnoff appeared on the Alex Jones show last week to discuss the
   Epstein case and elite pedophile rings.
   
   

   

   
   Epstein was imprisoned in 2008 after he pleaded guilty to soliciting
   sex from a minor. He only served a 13 month stint. It was also revealed
   that Epstein owned a 72-acre island, which was nicknamed "Orgy Island".
   It has been alleged that Epstein trafficked girls as young as
   twelve-years-old to the island for his rich friends to engage in sex
   acts with.
   
   Epstein was known to move in elite circles, some of his associates
   included Kate Couric, Chelsea Handler, Woody Allen, and Britain's
   Prince Andrew, as well as other European royalty and heads of state. A
   2015 lawsuit brought by one of the alleged victims revealed that Bill
   Clinton's name was listed in Epstein's phone book 21 times.
   
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   Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones'
   Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com "



hedge fund billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
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ARTICLE
03.25.11 8:17 AM ET
Behind Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Sweetheart Deal
written by Conchita Sarnoff  , Lee Aitken
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/03/25/jeffrey-epstein-how-the-billionaire-pedophile-got-off-easy.html

  "The U.S. attorney who oversaw the hedge fund mogul pedophile's
   prosecution reveals exclusively to The Daily Beast how Jeffrey Epstein
   got off with a slap on the wrist.
   
   Documents obtained by The Daily Beast reveal how pedophile hedge fund
   mogul Jeffrey Epstein escaped a hefty jail sentence despite
   overwhelming evidence of sex crimes with dozens of young girls.
   Conchita Sarnoff and Lee Aitken on how the fear and intimidation
   experienced by victims during pre-trial proceedings, combined with a
   ferocious, protracted campaign to undermine the prosecution, culminated
   in a set of charges that became a virtual slap on the wrist.
   
   It is proving difficult for hedge fund manager and registered sex
   offender Jeffrey Epstein to avoid the glare of media scrutiny – British
   tabloids most recently cried foul over the shabby royal comportment of
   Prince Andrew in agreeing to be the guest of an acknowledged pedophile.
   But the larger mystery surrounding Epstein, who completed a 13-month
   sentence for soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2010, has remained
   unsolved: How did the hedge fund mogul manage to finesse the kinds of
   sex-crime allegations typically associated with a hefty prison sentence?
   
   For the first time, the U.S. attorney who oversaw the Epstein
   prosecution in Florida's Southern District is commenting publicly on
   the case, in a letter released exclusively to The Daily Beast. This
   letter, along with other correspondence unearthed in our reporting,
   sheds new light on the no-holds-barred battle waged by Epstein's
   lawyers to evade the full exercise of prosecutorial power.
   
   Some of the most shocking allegations against Epstein surfaced only
   after the conclusion of an FBI probe, in civil suits brought by his
   victims: for example, the claim that three 12-year-old French girls
   were delivered to him as a birthday present. But the feds did identify
   roughly 40 young women, most of them underage at the time, who
   described being lured to Epstein's Palm Beach home on the pretense of
   giving a "massage" for money, then pressured into various sex acts, as
   well as the "Balkan sex slave" Epstein allegedly boasted of purchasing
   from her family when she was just 14. More recently, a big cash payment
   from Mail on Sunday coaxed one of Epstein's main accusers out of
   anonymity to describe what she claims were her years as a teenage sex
   toy. This victim, Virginia Roberts, produced a photo of herself with
   Prince Andrew in 2001 and reported that Epstein paid her $15,000 to
   meet the prince. Then 17 years old, she claims that she was abused by
   Epstein and "loaned" to his friends from the age of 15.
   
   
   
   Sex crimes of the kind Roberts alleges took place typically carry a
   term of 10 to 20 years in federal prison. Yet when all was said and
   done, Epstein served his scant year-plus-one-month in a private wing of
   the Palm Beach jail and was granted a 16-hour-per-day free pass to
   leave the premises for work. A Daily Beast examination into the inner
   workings of the Epstein defense strategy reveals how the fear and
   intimidation experienced by victims during pre-trial proceedings,
   combined with a ferocious, protracted campaign to undermine the
   prosecution – summed up as "the best defense is an all-star offense" –
   culminated in a set of charges that became a virtual slap on the wrist
   for the globe-trotting financier.  Fear and intimidation experienced by
   victims during pre-trial proceedings, combined with a ferocious,
   protracted campaign to undermine the prosecution, culminated in a set
   of charges that became a virtual slap on the wrist.
   
   
   
   "Over the past weeks, I have read much regarding Mr. Jeffrey Epstein,"
   are words opening an extraordinary letter written by R. Alexander
   Acosta, who served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of
   Florida during Epstein's criminal investigation. Mr. Acosta goes on to
   detail how, in 2005, a young girl first brought sex-crime allegations
   to the Palm Beach Police Department, which sought felony charges
   against Epstein. Subsequently, however, the State Attorney agreed to
   charge him "only with one count of aggravated assault with no intent to
   commit a felony," Acosta writes. He notes that such a charge would have
   resulted in no jail time, no registration as a sexual offender, and no
   responsibility for restitution to Epstein's underage victims.
   
   Frustrated by the State Attorney's decision, the police referred the
   case to the FBI, which handed it to the U.S. Attorney General's office.
   After reviewing the charges, federal prosecutors "agreed that the state
   charge was insufficient," Acosta writes. In a script that could have
   been lifted from Law and Order, his team gave Epstein two choices:
   "plead to more serious state felony charges...or else prepare for a
   federal felony trial."
   
   
   
   The next passage is where things really get interesting: "What followed
   was a year-long assault on the prosecution and the prosecutors."
   Epstein had assembled a world-class legal team, including Alan
   Dershowitz, Kenneth Starr, and Roy Black (best known for having
   defended William Kennedy Smith against rape charges in Palm Beach.)
   "One member of the defense team warned me that the office's excess zeal
   in forcing a good man to serve time in jail might be the subject of a
   book if we continued," Acosta writes. In his view, excessive zeal more
   aptly described the actions in Epstein's camp: "Defense counsel
   investigated individual prosecutors and their families," seeking to
   unearth personal issues that might lead to disqualification of members
   of Acosta's team. The defense also "often failed to negotiate in good
   faith. They would obtain concessions as part of a negotiation and agree
   to proceed, only to change their minds, and appeal the office's
   position to Washington."
   
   Undeterred, Acosta stuck to his position that Epstein must agree to the
   three criteria he had laid out: jail time, registration as a sex
   offender, and restitution to victims.
   
   
   Acosta's account is supported by a second document obtained by The
   Daily Beast – a five-page letter written by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ann
   Marie Villafana to another of Epstein's lawyers, Jay Lefkowitz, during
   the period when both sides were hammering out the eventual plea
   agreement. "The indictment was postponed for more than five months to
   allow you and Mr. Epstein's other attorneys to make presentations to
   the office to convince the office not to prosecute," Villafana writes,
   conjuring the degree of pushback apparently central to the team's
   strategy. "Those presentations were unsuccessful." Villafana also
   mentions her efforts to insure that Epstein would serve time in a
   federal "prison camp" and not a state prison, which would be a far
   rougher environment, particularly for a child molester.
   
   Villafana marshals these facts in the process of strenuously disputing
   apparent charges of misconduct by the defense: "I continued to work
   with you in a professional manner even after I learned that you had
   been proceeding in bad faith for several weeks – thinking that ... you
   would 'fool' our office into letting Mr. Epstein plead to a
   non-registerable offense."
   
   At another point in her letter, Villafana refers to an apparent
   allegation of self-dealing in the selection of an outside attorney who
   would represent the 40-odd victims identified in the FBI probe. In a
   somewhat unusual arrangement, Epstein agreed not to contest his
   liability in any civil suits brought by these victims – and in fact to
   pay for lawyers to represent them. In her letter, Villafana denies any
   personal interest in the choice of attorney and goes on to say, "your
   attacks on me and on the victims establish why I wanted to find someone
   whom I could trust with safeguarding the victims' best interests in the
   face of intense pressure from an unlimited number of highly skilled and
   well paid attorneys."
   
   Responding to a request for comment on Acosta's account of events, Roy
   Black wrote The Daily Beast on Thursday that, "I can't reply to a
   letter I haven't received...I can't give a reasoned response without
   examining the files and being able to refresh my recollection of events
   that occurred years ago." Black went on, "I do not believe any of the
   things you mention occurred except for the fact we did exercise our
   right to appeal to the Department of Justice to determine if a federal
   crime had been committed." (Other Epstein attorneys contacted by The
   Daily Beast did not respond. The U.S Attorney's office for the Southern
   District of Florida had no comment.)
   
   Why did Acosta decide to voice his opinions now? In part, he clearly is
   reacting to ongoing criticism that Epstein's puny punishment did not
   fit his crimes. "Some may feel that the prosecution should have been
   tougher," Acosta writes. "Evidence that has come to light since 2007
   may encourage that view. Many victims have since spoken out...physical
   evidence has since been discovered."
   
   Acosta may also have chosen to come forward now because, on Monday,
   attorneys for a number of those victims filed suit under the Victims
   Crimes Rights Act to challenge the "non-prosecution agreement" that
   ultimately resulted from all the wrangling, claiming that they were not
   consulted. The U.S. Attorney's office, now led by Wifredo A. Ferrer,
   has indicated it will file a response to the suit on April 7.
   
   In his letter, Acosta also takes issue with the way Epstein's sentence
   was carried out: "Although the terms of confinement in a state prison
   are a matter appropriately left to the State of Florida...without doubt,
   the treatment that he received while in state custody undermined the
   purpose of a jail sentence." Indeed, Epstein's brief confinement likely
   reinforced a perception that he had merely succumbed to a nuisance
   suit. Such a gross misapprehension would help account for the apparent
   ease with which Epstein has rejoined the ranks of a social elite. Katie
   Couric, Woody Allen, and George Stephanopoulos, among others, attended
   a dinner party he hosted for Prince Andrew in December, and New York
   authorities seem to be either unaware or unconcerned that his Upper
   East Side home is within 1,000 feet of an Episcopal pre-school, in
   violation of sex-offender laws.
   
   Yet a source tells The Daily Beast that Epstein's legal troubles may
   not be over. It is possible that, as an outgrowth of the 2007 Florida
   investigation, federal investigators are now looking into allegations
   of money laundering and other financial misdeeds. Villafana notes at
   the end of her letter to Lefkowitz: "You accuse me of broadening the
   scope of the investigation without any foundation for doing so by
   adding charges of money laundering and violations of a money
   transmitting business to the investigation. Again, I consulted with the
   Justice Department's Money Laundering Section about my analysis...the
   duty officer agreed with my analysis."
   
   Conchita Sarnoff has developed multimedia communication programs for
   Fortune 500 companies and has produced three current events debate
   television programs, The Americas Forum, From Beirut to Kabul, and a
   segment for The Oppenheimer Report. She is writing a book about child
   trafficking in America. TrafficKing by Conchita Sarnoff (Banned by Bezos)
   
   Lee Aitken is an editor and writer who has worked at Time Inc., the New
   Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, and the International Tribune, among
   others. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her daughter. "


Full Text  of the Acosta Letter :
     
      March 20, 2011
     
     
      To whom it may concern:
     
      I served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 2005 through 2009. Over the
      past weeks, I have read much regarding Mr. Jeffrey Epstein. Some appears true, some appears
      distorted. I thought it appropriate to provide some background, with two caveats: (i) under
      Justice Department guidelines, I cannot discuss privileged internal communications among
      Department attorneys and (ii) I no longer have access to the original documents, and as the
      matter is now nearly 9 years old, the precision of memory is reduced.
     
      The Epstein matter was originally presented to the Palm Beach County State Attorney. Palm
      Beach Police alleged that Epstein unlawfully hired underage high-school females to provide him
      sexually lewd and erotic massages. Police sought felony charges that would have resulted in a
      term of imprisonment. According to press reports, however, in 2006 the State Attorney, in part
      due to concerns regarding the quality of the evidence, agreed to charge Epstein only with one
      count of aggravated assault with no intent to commit a felony. That charge would have resulted
      in no jail time, no requirement to register as a sexual offender and no restitution for the underage
      victims.
     
      Local police were dissatisfied with the State Attorney's conclusions, and requested a federal
      investigation. Federal authorities received the State's evidence and engaged in additional
      investigation. Prosecutors weighed the quality of the evidence and the likelihood for success at
      trial. With a Federal case, there were two additional considerations. First, a federal criminal
      prosecution requires that the crime be more than local; it must have an interstate nexus. Second,
      as the matter was initially charged by the state, the federal responsibility is, to some extend, to
      back-stop state authorities to ensure that there is no miscarriage of justice, and not to also
      prosecute federally that which has already been charged at the state level.
     
      After considering the quality of the evidence and the additional considerations, prosecutors
      concluded that the state charge was insufficient. In early summer 2007, the prosecutors and
      agents in this case met with Mr. Epstein's attorney, Roy Black. Mr. Black is perhaps best known
      for his successful defense of William Kennedy Smith. The prosecutors presented Epstein a
      choice: plead to more serious state felony charges (That would result in 2 years' imprisonment,
      registration as a sexual offender, and restitution for the victims) or else prepare for a federal
      felony trial.
     
      What followed was a year-long assault on the prosecution and the prosecutors. I use the word
      assault intentionally. as the defense in this case was more aggressive than any which I, or the
      prosecutors in my office, had previously encountered. Mr. Epstein hired an army of legal
      superstars: Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz. former Judge and then Pepperdine Law Dean
      Kenneth Starr, former Deputy Assistant to the President and then Kirkland & Ellis Partner Jay
      Lefkowitz, and several others, including prosecutors who had formally worked in the U.S.
     
     
      Attorney's Office and in the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Justice Department.
      Defense attorneys next requested a meeting with me to challenge the prosecution and the terms
      previously presented by the prosecutors in their meeting with Mr. Black. The prosecution team
      and I met with defense counsel in Fall 2007, and I reaffirmed the office's position: two years,
      registration and restitution, or trial.
     
      Over the next several months, the defense team presented argument after argument claiming that
      felony criminal proceedings against  Epstein were unsupported by the evidence and lacked a basis
      in law, and that the office's insistence on jail-time was motivated by a zeal to overcharge a man
      merely because he is wealthy. They bolstered their arguments with legal opinions from well-
      known legal experts. One member of the defense team warned me that the office's excess zeal in
      forcing a good man to serve time in jail might be the subject of a book if we continued to
      proceed with this matter. My office systematically considered and rejected each argument, and
      when we did, my office's decisions were appealed to Washington. As to the warning, I ignored
      it.
     
      The defense strategy was not limited to legal issues. Defense counsel investigated individual
      prosecutors and their families, looking for personal peccadilloes that may provide a basis for
      disqualification. Disqualifying a prosecutor is an effective (though rarely used) strategy, as
      eliminating the individuals most familiar with the facts and thus most qualified to take a case to
      trial harms likelihood for success. Defense counsel tried to disqualify at least two prosecutors. I
      carefully reviewed, and then rejected, these arguments.
     
      Despite this army of attorneys, the office held firm to the terms first presented to Mr. Black in
      the original meeting. On June 30, 2008, after yet another last minute appeal to Washington D.C.
      was rejected, Epstein pled guilty in state court. He was to serve 18 months imprisonment,
      register as a sexual offender for life and provide restitution to the victims.
     
      Some may feel that the prosecution should have been tougher. Evidence that has come to light
      since 2007 may, encourage that view. Many victims have since spoken out, filing detailed
      statements in civil cases seeking damages. Physical evidence has since been discovered. Had
      these additional statements and evidence been known, the outcome may have been different. But
      they were not known to us at the time.
     
      A prosecution decision must be based on admissible facts known at the time. In cases of this
      type, those are unusually difficult because victims are frightened and often decline to testify or if
      they do speak, they give contradictory statements. Our judgment in this case, based on the
      evidence known at the time, was that it was better to have a billionaire serve time in jail, register
      as a sex offender and pay his victims restitution than risk a trial with a reduced likelihood of
      success. I supported that judgment then, and based on the state of the law as it then stood and the
      evidence known at that time, I would support that judgment again.
     
      Epstein's treatment, while in state custody, likewise may encourage the view that the office
      should have been tougher. Epstein appears to have received highly unusual treatment while in
      jail. Although the terms of confinement in a state prison are a matter appropriately left to the
      State of Florida, and not federal authorities, without doubt, the treatment that he received while
      in state custody undermined the purpose of a jail sentence.
     
      Some may also believe that the prosecution should have been tougher in retaliation for the
      defense's tactics. The defense, arguably, often failed to negotiate in good faith. They would
      obtain concessions as part of a negotiation and agree to proceed, only to change their minds, and
      appeal the office's position to Washington. The investigations into the family lives of individual
      prosecutors were, in my opinion, uncalled for, as were the accusations of bias and / or
      misconduct against individual prosecutors. At times, some prosecutors felt that we should just
      go to trial, and at times I felt that frustration myself. What was right in the first meeting,
      however, remained right irrespective of defense tactics. Individuals have a constitutional right to
      a defense. The aggressive exercise of that right should not be punished, nor should a defense
      counsel's exercise of their right to appeal a U.S. Attorney to Washington D.C. Prosecutors must
      be careful not to allow frustration and anger with defense counsel to influence their judgment.
     
      After the plea, I recall receiving several phone calls. One was from the FBI Special Agent-In-
      Charge. He called to offer congratulations. He had been at many of the meetings regarding this
      case. He was aware of the tactics of the defense, and he called to praise our prosecutors for
      holding firm against the likes of Messrs. Black, Dershowitz, Lefkowitz and Starr. It was a proud
      moment. I also received calls or communications from Messrs. Dershowitz, Lefkowitz and
      Starr. I had known all three individuals previously, from my time in law school and at Kirkland
      & Ellis in the mid 9Os. They all sought to make peace. I agreed to talk and meet with each of
      them after Epstein pled guilty, as I think it important that prosecutors battle defense attorneys in
      a case and then move on. I have tried, yet I confess that has been difficult to do fully in this case.
     
      The bottom line is this: Mr. Jeffrey Epstein, a billionaire, served time in jail and is now a
      registered sex offender. He has been required to pay his victims restitution, though restitution
      clearly cannot compensate for the crime. And we know much more today about his crimes
      because the victims have come forward to speak out. Some may disagree with the prosecutorial
      judgments made in this case, but those individuals are not the ones who at the time reviewed the
      evidence available for trial and assessed the likelihood of success.
     
      Respectfully,
     
      R. Alexander Acosta
      Former U.S. Attorney
      Sothern District of Florida

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Trouble is, Trump supposedly associated with Epstein, also.  Not as much as Clinton, of course, because Trump's not a pervert.  But, he's a rich New Yorker, and he rubs shoulders wih other rich New Yorkers, one of which is the pervert Epstein, and another of which is the pervert Bill Clinton.

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Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender's jet much more than previously known
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Epstein, (inset left), and Clinton flew together at least 26 times on the disgraced financier's "Lolita Express." (John Coates, airport-data.com)

  "Former President Bill Clinton was a much more frequent flyer on a
   registered sex offender's infamous jet than previously reported, with
   flight logs showing the former president taking at least 26 trips
   aboard the "Lolita Express" -- even apparently ditching his Secret
   Service detail for at least five of the flights, according to records
   obtained by FoxNews.com.
   
   Clinton's presence aboard Jeffrey Epstein's Boeing 727 on 11 occasions
   has been reported, but flight logs show the number is more than double
   that, and trips between 2001 and 2003 included extended junkets around
   the world with Epstein and fellow passengers identified on manifests by
   their initials or first names, including "Tatiana." The tricked-out jet
   earned its Nabakov-inspired nickname because it was reportedly
   outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls.
   
   "Bill Clinton ... associated with a man like Jeffrey Epstein, who
   everyone in New York, certainly within his inner circles, knew was a
   pedophile," said Conchita Sarnoff, of the Washington, D.C. based
   non-profit Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking, and author of a
   book on the Epstein case called "TrafficKing." "Why would a former
   president associate with a man like that?"
   
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   Epstein owns the entire 72-acre island. (Google Earth)
   
   Epstein, who counts among his pals royal figures, heads of state,
   celebrities and fellow billionaires, spent 13 months in prison and home
   detention for solicitation and procurement of minors for prostitution.
   He allegedly had a team of traffickers who procured girls as young as
   12 to service his friends on "Orgy Island," an estate on Epstein's
   72-acre island, called Little St. James, in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
   
   Virginia Roberts, 32, who claims she was pimped out by Epstein at age
   15, has previously claimed she saw Clinton at Epstein's getaway in
   2002, but logs do not show Clinton aboard any flights to St. Thomas,
   the nearest airport capable of accommodating Epstein's plane. They do
   show Clinton flying aboard Epstein's plane to such destinations as Hong
   Kong, Japan, Singapore, China, Brunei, London, New York, the Azores,
   Belgium, Norway, Russia and Africa.
   
   Among those regularly traveling with Clinton were Epstein's associates,
   New York socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein's assistant, Sarah
   Kellen, both of whom were investigated by the FBI and Palm Beach Police
   for recruiting girls for Epstein and his friends.
   
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   The flight logs are required to be filed with the Federal Aviation
   Administration.
   
   Official flight logs filed with the Federal Aviation Administration
   show Clinton traveled on some of the trips with as many as 10 U.S.
   Secret Service agents. However, on a five-leg Asia trip between May 22
   and May 25, 2002, not a single Secret Service agent is listed. The U.S.
   Secret Service has declined to answer multiple Freedom of Information
   Act requests filed by FoxNews.com seeking information on these trips.
   Clinton would have been required to file a form to dismiss the agent
   detail, a former Secret Service agent told FoxNews.com.
   
   In response to a separate FOIA request from FoxNews.com, the U.S.
   Secret Service said it has no records showing agents were ever on the
   island with Clinton.
   
   A Clinton spokesperson did not return emails requesting comment about
   the former president's relationship and travels with Epstein. The
   Clinton Library said it had no relevant information and does not keep
   track of Clinton's travel records.
   
   Martin Weinberg, Epstein's current attorney, did not respond to
   multiple inquiries. Epstein said in a court filing said that he and his
   associates "have been the subject of the most outlandish and offensive
   attacks, allegations, and plain inventions."
   
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  Epstein's Boeing 727 was known as the "Lolita Express." (John Coates,
   airport-data.com)
   
   However, hundreds of pages of court records, including reports from
   police and FBI agents, reviewed by FoxNews.com, show Epstein was under
   law enforcement scrutiny for more than a year.
   
   Police in Palm Beach, Fla., launched a year-long investigation in 2005
   into Epstein after parents of a 14-year-old girl said their daughter
   was sexually abused by him. Police interviewed dozens of witnesses,
   confiscated his trash, performed surveillance and searched his Palm
   Beach mansion, ultimately identifying 20 girls between the ages of 14
   and 17 who they said were sexually abused by Epstein.
   
   In 2006, at the request of Palm Beach Police, the FBI launched a
   federal probe into allegations that Epstein and his personal assistants
   had "used facilities of interstate commerce to induce girls between the
   ages of 14 and 17 to engage in illegal sexual activities."
   
   According to court documents, police investigators found a "clear
   indication that Epstein's staff was frequently working to schedule
   multiple young girls between the ages of 12 and 16 years old literally
   every day, often two or three times per day."
   
   One victim, in sworn deposition testimony, said Epstein began sexually
   assaulting her when she was 13 years old and molested her on more than
   50 occasions over the next three years. The girls testified they were
   lured to Epstein's home after being promised hundreds of dollars to be
   his model or masseuse, but when they arrived, he ordered them to take
   off their clothes and massage his naked body while he masturbated and
   used sex toys on them.
   
   The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida prepared
   charging documents that accused Epstein of child sex abuse, witness
   tampering and money laundering, but Epstein took a plea deal before an
   indictment could be handed up.
   
   On Sept. 24, 2007, in a deal shrouded in secrecy that left alleged
   victims shocked at its leniency, Epstein agreed to a 30-month sentence,
   including 18 months of jail time and 12 months of house arrest and the
   agreement to pay dozens of young girls under a federal statute
   providing for compensation to victims of child sexual abuse.
   
   In exchange, the U.S. Attorney's Office promised not to pursue any
   federal charges against Epstein or his co-conspirators.
   
   Florida attorney Brad Edwards, who represented some of Epstein's
   alleged victims, is suing the federal government over the secret
   non-prosecution agreement in hopes of having it overturned. Edwards
   claimed in court records that the government and Epstein concealed the
   deal from the victims "to prevent them from voicing any objection, and
   to avoid the firestorm of controversy that would have arisen if it had
   become known that the Government was immunizing a politically-connected
   billionaire and all of his co-conspirators from prosecution of hundreds
   of federal sex crimes against minor girls."
   
   The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida did not respond
   to a request for comment about the deal.
   
   Other politicians, celebrities and businessmen, including presidential
   candidate Donald Trump, have been accused of fraternizing with Epstein.
   Trump lawyer Alan Garten told FoxNews.com in a statement Trump and
   Epstein are not pals.
   
   "There was no relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump,"
   he said. "They were not friends and they did not socialize together."