• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Btw… all of the names released to date? We doing anything about any of them?

    Is Brett Ratner going to jail? No? He’s making Rush Hour 4 now?

    How about Larry Summer? Woody Allen? Bill Clinton? Anybody??

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      3 days ago

      You have to look at the context too. There’s nothing in the released files that implies Clinton did anything illegal. Ratner, that’s another story, and same goes for Wexler. And the correspondence with Larry Summer looked incriminating, too.

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        3 days ago

        There’s nothing in the released files that implies Clinton did anything illegal.

        I gotta wonder how you resolve a game of Clue if you’ve got the suspect, the room, and the murder weapon, but you still can’t figure out who done it.

        Clinton has been credibly accused of sexual assault on multiple occasions. “I didn’t do the sex crimes on the sex island with the other rapists” is a “I smoked but I didn’t inhale” ass defense.

        If you believe it…

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      4 days ago

      Nobody will be prosecuted as a result of the Epstein Files. The chain of custody has been irretrievably compromised. Nothing in them can be trusted as evidence in court, and any lawyer can get the evidence tossed, or at least mistrusted enough by the jury to not convict. This is all just salacious gossip.

      The better track to prosecution will be the investigations into the money trails. It’s boring, but the evidence is much stronger, and will hold up in court.

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        3 days ago

        I don’t know why you’re down voted. You are 1000 percent correct. No one will ever see a jail cell. Or if they do it will be a scapegoat. Only social justice is going to happen through shame and horrible reputations.

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        3 days ago

        The files are not the only evidence. A DoJ not involved in a coverup would interview victims, for one thing, and also interview potential suspects.

        The better track to prosecution will be the investigations into the money trails.

        That’ll show flows of money, but not their purpose. Necessary, but not sufficient.

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        4 days ago

        The chain of custody has been irretrievably compromised.

        I mean, I don’t think that’s the reason why.

        The better track to prosecution will be the investigations into the money trails.

        But that also won’t happen, for obvious reasons. Nobody is going to prosecute Jamie fucking Dimon for anything, even though he’s closer to the center of this web than even Epstein himself.