The case against billionaire financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested Saturday night on charges of sex trafficking underage girls, could potentially involve several big names, among them two presidents. The connections between Epstein and Donald Trump, opinion writer and Trump biographer Timothy L. O’Brien writes, should be “a worry” for the president.
On Saturday, the FBI-NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force arrested Epstein on charges connected to the alleged sex trafficking of dozens of minors between 2002 and 2005, The Daily Beast reported Sunday. As detailed by the Miami Herald last year, Epstein infamously received only a slap on the wrist from the feds in 2008 after pleading guilty to “one count of solicitation of prostitution and one count of solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18,” avoiding hard prison time despite a slew of allegations (see more details of his 2008 sentence below). In February, a Palm Beach judge ruled that deal unconstitutional; now, the billionaire investor faces up to 45 years in prison.
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