The Meow Mix cat has more intelligence and class than Rapinoe. And...Women's Soccer is not a real sport....Rapinoe said she stands by her White House comments and still has no intention of celebrating the USA's championship with President Donald Trump because of his message that "excludes a lot of people."
"It excludes people that look like me and are me, of course," Rapinoe explained.
The raid of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's palatial New York City residence uncovered a now-expired passport issued in the 1980s by a foreign country with Epstein’s picture but with a different name on it and his residence listed as Saudi Arabia.
Prosecutors said during Epstein's bail hearing Monday the passport was in a locked safe that was also filled with "piles of cash" and "dozens of diamonds."
Epstein is a flight risk and poses an “ongoing and forward-looking danger,” prosecutors claimed, pointing to the "substantial collection of photographic trophies of his victims and other young females in his mansion”[.]
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Investigators also allege that Epstein attempted to pay off possible witnesses against him with hundreds of thousands of dollars when media scrutiny began to ramp up in late 2018.
The source of Jeffrey Epstein’s wealth, which prosecutors recently pegged at north of $500 million during bail proceedings , has long been a mystery and the subject of rampant speculation. But perhaps the oddest claim about where some of Epstein’s vast fortune came from actually originated with Epstein himself, who reportedly bragged to friends back in the 1980s that he was acting as a global bounty hunter for unspecified governments.
The allegedly falsified foreign passport that prosecutors recovered a week ago does match this timeframe.
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Prosecutors said they examined bank records which suggest Epstein “already earns at least $10,000,000 per year… while living in the U.S. Virgin Islands, traveling extensively abroad, and residing in part in Paris, France.” They suggested that, even though Epstein’s source of wealth remains a mystery to them, “there would be little to stop the defendant from fleeing, transferring his unknown assets abroad, and then continuing to do whatever it is he does to earn his vast wealth from a computer terminal beyond the reach of extradition.”
Dead Gov Bruce King, a DEM, as if we couldn't have guessed:At the center of Jeffrey Epstein's secluded New Mexico ranch sits a sprawling residence the financier built decades ago — complete with plans for a 4,000-square-foot (372-square-meter) courtyard, a living room roughly the size of the average American home and a nearby private airplane runway.
Known as the Zorro Ranch, the high-desert property is now tied to an investigation that the state attorney general's office says it has opened into Epstein with plans to forward findings to federal authorities in New York.
Epstein, who pleaded not guilty this week to federal sex trafficking charges in New York, has not faced criminal charges in New Mexico.
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In a 2015 court filing in Florida, a plaintiff in a lawsuit against Epstein said she had been abused at several locations, including the New Mexico property.
Records show Epstein purchased the ranch, valued by county officials at over $12 million, from the family of former Gov. Bruce King, who died 10 years ago. A 1995 Santa Fe New Mexican story about his plans to build a mansion on the property said the home would be 26,700 square feet (2,480 square meters) with a 2,100-square-foot (195-square-meter) living room.
Aerial images of the property show an airplane hangar and landing strip. Closer to the east edge of the property, several structures that appear to serve as small homes and stables stand in public view.
The King family still owns land surrounding much of Epstein's ranch near the town of Stanley, a rural outpost on the plains that stretch east of the Sandia Mountains.
Gary King, the son of the former governor, was the state attorney general from 2007 to 2015, and was among a handful of candidates in the state who returned Epstein campaign donations.
King had received $15,000 from Epstein in 2006 during his first-bid for attorney general, and then received $35,000 from firms linked to Epstein in 2014.
Former Gov. Bill Richardson donated $50,000 in 2006 gubernatorial campaign contributions from Epstein to charity.
Selection from the Columbia Heights City Proclamation Guidelines:Columbia Heights LGBTQ residents wanted to celebrate the city's first Pride festival, set to take place this coming Saturday.
They had hoped the celebration could start at Monday's city council meeting.
Instead, the group packed the small chambers for a different reason: to protest the mayor's decision not to issue a proclamation, recognizing and celebrating the inaugural event.
Explaining her decision, Mayor Donna Schmitt said the pride festival didn't fit within the guidelines for the ceremonial documents.
However, Schmitt did confirm to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, those guidelines were developed the same week that organizers of the pride festival began asking about a proclamation. (So what about the timing of the Guidelines? - DD)
"It is not about a group, it's about, let's follow the guidelines," Schmitt said during an interview. "They can go out and celebrate, they are more than welcome to rent our parks and have a family friendly event as they have requested."
Organizers of the event say the decision has created concerns about discrimination in the city.
Amada Marquez Simula, who has been planning the event for months, said the group feels the event fits within the guidelines for recognition.
"She didn't think that it was important enough for a proclamation," Simula said.
Residents who went to Monday's council meeting admonished the mayor, voicing their frustrations during the public comment period.
"Right now, the eye is on Columbia Heights that our city government is biased against the LGBTQ community," Simula said.
Mayor Schmitt responded to those criticisms during an interview with 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, saying her decision was not motivated by the discrimination of any group.
"I just hope they realize, they don't represent everyone in the city either," Schmitt said.
The Pride festival will happen regardless.
She told MOJO magazine: ''I would like guns to be illegal in America and I feel very strongly about that.["]And she feels very strongly...very strongly...about that.
"I will not apologize for the deportation of people who have committed a felony,” he added. “I will apologize for deportations if in fact you were deported because in fact you were engaged in a misdemeanor… or your family was separated," [said Biden].Make sure you listen for it...the way he pronounces it, he says, "MISTER-meanor."
Kind of like watching the DEMS eating each other, but less violent.A pair of frenzied Great White sharks have attacked each other in a furious scrap caught on camera.
The incredibly rare footage shows the apex predators turn on each other and supports recent reports of the sharks preying on their own kind as a food source.
It shows the two mammals grappling in the water and dragging each other down by their jaws.
...a study concluded that YouTube emitted about 11 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2016 on its own. A new report from the Shift Project concluded that the transmission and viewing of all online videos generate 300 million tons of carbon dioxide a year–roughly 1% of global emissions. The big takeaway from its findings: To reduce our negative impact on the planet, we need to curb our Netflix and porn habits.
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[T]he Shift Project] found that on-demand video services (like Netflix and Prime Video) are responsible for a third of the emissions–and porn videos generate another third. Based on these numbers, watching porn videos emit the same amount of CO2 as entire countries like Bangladesh and Nigeria!
Now, the organization is concerned that the world’s current streaming habits may be both problematic and unsustainable.
“If we let the video users go how they are going right now, there will be a time when we just won’t be able to really sustain these users, and I think it’s dangerous for the digital infrastructure for the digital world,” Maxime Efoui-Hess, co-author of the study, told Gizmodo.
The organization is calling for more regulations regarding online video use and even created a browser extension (only compatible with Firefox) called Carbonalyser. The extension is supposed to raise awareness by helping users find out how much emission their personal computer use is responsible for.
The authors of the study suggest limitations to the amount of data users have access to.
So maybe the next time you’re feeling all hot and bothered, just think about climate change! It’s more effective than a cold shower (and much less wasteful).- - -
Saturday night’s power outage in New York City took place on the 42nd anniversary of a devastating blackout that affected most of the city and led to widespread looting.
- @NYCEmergencyMgt is working with the NYPD, FDNY and city agencies to respond to power outages in Manhattan due to a manhole fire earlier this evening. Disruption is significant.Hit your favorite Chan(s), BBS and discussion sites for the conspiracy theories. Far too many for me to list. Me? This can only be the work of Teh Russians. Or...this guy.
We’ll have further updates soon — please follow @NotifyNYC.
[C]ivil servant] Lee Hegarty complained under human rights legislation he should not have to work in an office that featured paintings of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
After his complaint, the portraits were removed and replaced with photographs of the royals meeting people in Northern Ireland during official visits.
But Lord Maginnis said he was most outraged that the senior official’s dispute was settled in secret with the then-Northern Ireland Secretary, Theresa Villiers, who approved a £10,000 compensation payment for “hurt feelings and distress”.
Government - any government - getting something right the first time? A pipe dream; a fantasy of unicorns, mermaids and pixies.Confusion and chaos are how some people are describing driving and parking in Little Italy on Thursday after crews began adding new bike lanes downtown.
“A mess -- nobody knows what’s going on,” said resident Corry Candland.
The bike lanes located on Beech Street have a row of cars parked next to the curb, and next to those cars is what looks like a bike lane, and next to that is another row of parked cars.
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“It’s going to be much better defined," said Jose Ysea, a spokesperson for the City of San Diego.
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“And it touches on, of course, the climate action plan: Getting people out of vehicles and onto bicycles,” said Ysea.
It can always be worse...A big land crab invasion was caught on camera by a resident in Port St. Lucie this week.
Homeowner Dan Skowronski said his home was covered in crabs after some heavy rain earlier this week, prompting them to evacuate their burrows.
Skowronski's video shows hundreds of crabs in all shapes and sizes crawling on his backyard porch screen.
Not only were they creeping onto his home but scurrying all over his property.
"The vast majority of people of color in this country are intolerant of lactose and yet, because they think they have to eat [dairy], they go out and eat it and get sick," Milton Mills, a physician from Gilead Medical Group in Washington, D.C., said in a public meeting Thursday.
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Mills said he was originally speaking to call out the "racism that is inherent in the U.S. dietary guidelines," but upon seeing the committee lacking any minorities, he understood why it was a problem.
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"We need to remove dairy as a food group," said Amie Hamlin, from the Coalition for Healthy School Food, which advocates for plant-based diets in schools.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Aurora on Friday evening to march to the ICE detention facility where illegal and undocumented immigrants are being housed. They also removed the U.S. flag, replaced it with a Mexican flag, and spray painted graffiti on the American flag before they replaced it flying upside down.Hit the link for, what is at least at publishing time, live video.
At least a dozen new women have come forward to claim they were sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein even as the multimillionaire money manager tries to persuade a federal judge to allow him to await a sex trafficking trial from the comfort of the same $77 million Manhattan mansion where he’s accused of luring teenage girls into unwanted sex acts.Epstein is the textbook definition of "Flight Risk". No - he needs to remain in custody.
Following Epstein’s arrest Saturday in New Jersey, four women have reached out to New York lawyer David Boies, and at least 10 other women have approached other lawyers who have represented dozens of Epstein’s alleged victims in the past.
Local attorney Spencer Kuvin [during] a deposition Sept. 2 [2009], asked Epstein [about his small endowment] and Epstein walked out — 100 seconds after it started. And it was all caught on the video above. Epstein, 56, did answer the first question: What is your name? But he balked at the second: Is it true that . . . you have an egg-shaped penis? After an objection from his attorney, Mike Pike, and another attempt from Kuvin, Epstein took off his microphone and left.
"Is it true sir, that ah, you have what's been described as an egg-shaped penis?"And that's when Epstain decided to call it a day. Nice guy, huh?
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"Sir, according to the police department's probably cause affidavit one witness described your penis as oval shaped and claimed when erect, it was thick toward the bottom but thin and small towards the head portion. And called it egg shaped. Those are not my words, I apologize..."
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said Friday he is resigning following renewed scrutiny of his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with wealthy financier Jeffrey Esptein, who is accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls.While this is disappointing, it is an expected Clintonesque maneuver...Blame the victim - or in this case Acosta - rather than going after the real offenders.
President Donald Trump, with Acosta at his side, made the announcement as he left the White House for a trip to Wisconsin and Ohio. The president said Acosta had been a "great" labor secretary.
"I hate to see this happen," Trump said. He said he did not ask Acosta to leave the Cabinet.
Acosta said his resignation would be effective in seven days. Acosta said he didn't think it was right for his handling of Epstein's case to distract from his work as secretary of labor.
The Trump administration is moving forward with a nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting migrant families, despite loud opposition from Democrats and questions over whether it's the best use of resources given the crisis at the border. (Gotta love the DEMS. How many years did they deny there was a crisis at the border? - DD)NY Post: Schumer unveils bill to end separation of immigrant children.
The operation could happen as soon as this weekend after being postponed by President Donald Trump late last month.
“It is not American to treat children like this,” Schumer said, calling for “nasty and vicious” people in the Trump administration — namely immigration hardliner Stephen Miller — to stop using migrant children as political pawns.Roll Call: DEMS denounce ICE deportations calling them, "raids".
“Thousands of individuals, families and children will once again be displaced from their homes and placed in detention facilities,” Democratic Illinois Sen. Richard J. Durbin said.Roll Call: Crazy Mazie Hirono invokes plea, "for the children."
Make sure to read the whole News Target story....it can’t be emphasized enough that the very same fake news outlets and tech monopolies that have been screaming “Russian collusion!” nonstop for the past three years are now the ones actively colluding with each other to try to steal the next election from President Trump, as well as silence all online free speech.
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...there’s a war being waged against the First Amendment, as the tech overlords crack down on all independent thought in the name of fighting “hate speech” and “offensive” content. Ironically, these entities claim to be fighting “fascism,” while they themselves employ fascist tactics in an effort to silence all deviating thoughts and beliefs.
“The very existence of Google is incompatible with free society,” warns Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, about where all of this is headed. “Google must be shut down and permanently removed from society. Its engineers should be arrested, indicted and imprisoned for life to prevent them from repeating their evil schemes against humanity.”
Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, or “The Squad,” voted against a bill that aimed to provide emergency funding at the border. Pelosi told the NYT Saturday the four newer members “have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” but “they’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”
Pelosi stood by her comments Wednesday, saying she doesn’t “do” regrets.
“I have no regrets about anything,” Pelosi told reporters after being asked if she was worried about her remarks dividing Democrats, The Washington Post reported. “Regrets is not what I do.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) of racism on Wednesday, telling the Washington Post that Pelosi was guilty of “the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
This pastime seems to be trending:CCTV footage shows a group of youths in Philadelphia looting a Walgreens store, the New York Post reported.
The store incurred thousands of dollars’ worth of damage on July 5, when young people poured in through the front doors and began looting the aisles.
Anchor Park City asylum seeker center Donauwörth damaged cars.Via You Tube:
In the mornings, an asylum seeker wantonly smashed glass panes of several vehicles in the Danube Wörther Anchor Center and caused property damage in the amount of EUR 50,000.
WTVR: NYPD is investigating vandalizing of Megan Rapinoe posters as possible hate crime."New York City, you’re the motherf–king best," [said Megan Rapinoe][.]
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“Step outside yourself, be bigger than you ever have before.”
The New York Police Department’s Hate Crime Task Force is investigating after posters of USA soccer star Megan Rapinoe were vandalized in a subway station."H-." Is that like /b ?
Eight posters featuring Rapinoe in her US Women’s National Team jersey included homophobic and defamatory slurs along with the phrase “screw this h–,” the NYPD told CNN.
This may be the most important video of 2020 Dear @JoeBiden: Sir, the debate was a disaster. Your #’s are in free fall. There is now one -and ONLY one- way to defeat @KamalaHarris. You, sir, must BECOME a woman of color. Its time for... #BuffaloJoe.
"...my hands are full. And sometimes I wonder if they’re trying to keep me busy," [said the JUNIOR DEM Rep from NY].
Hilarity ensues:An armored truck’s side door flew open while it was going down an Atlanta...I-285[.] “Vehicles immediately started stopping collecting the money,” [said] Dunwoody Police Sgt. Robert Parsons.
Time to check the flight manifests for Epstein island and see if Chucky traveled there. Why not. Schumer would be demanding the same if it were any other person.Sen. Chuck Schumer — who called on Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to resign and said President Trump should “answer” for his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein — accepted thousands of dollars in donations from the alleged pedophile throughout the 1990s, The Post has learned.
Federal Election Commission records show that Schumer received seven $1,000 donations from Epstein between 1992 and 1997, first as a US congressman from New York and then when he was vying to be the state’s senator in 1998, an election he won.
Epstein... also gave $10,000 to Victory in New York, a joint fundraising committee established by Schumer and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Epstein gave an additional $5,000 to Win New York, a Schumer-associated joint committee that benefited the Liberal Party of New York state.
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That means Schumer and Schumer-linked entities received a combined $22,000.
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday afternoon – a day after President Trump said he will look “very closely” at Acosta’s handling of a sex trafficking case involving billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein.Yes, Acosta was the federal prosecutor in South Florida. But it was Robert Mueller who swooped in and bargained for a light sentence for Epstein. Mueller did the exact same thing in 1999 for child-porn pedo David Asimov, (son of sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov).
A Labor Department spokesman told The Post that the presser is tentatively scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
The rep billed the appearance as a “general press conference,” without elaborating and answering questions about Epstein.
The embattled labor secretary was a federal prosecutor in South Florida when he was involved in a 2008 sweetheart plea deal that allowed Epstein to avoid prosecution on federal charges of molesting teenage girls.
David Asimov, of Living Oak Court, Bennett Ridge, Santa Rosa, the son of the late science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, was sentenced on March 28, 2001 to six months' home detention with electronic monitoring and three years federal probation for possessing child pornography. U.S. District Court Judge Maxine M. Chesney sentenced Asimov after reviewing a series of sealed psychiatric reports, one of which was ordered by the court. Asimov who was charged with four federal counts of possession of child pornography with each count carrying a five year sentence, pled guilty to two counts in a plea bargain deal. There was no forfeiture of any of Asimov's assets in this case, despite his owning a home in Santa Rosa purchased in 1996 for $375,000, and despite his receiving $3,000 per month from his father's estate. How did Asimov, who possessed one of the largest stashes of pornography in California, skate away from federal prison? A look at the players yields the answer.
Asimov's child porn stash was so big many child victims and perpetrators would have taken a fall, had Asimov been zealously prosecuted at trial. Asimov would probably have escaped detection, if he had not taken his personal computer to a store when its scanner and color printer malfunctioned. A technician working on the machine discovered images of children engaged in sexual acts with adults.
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"There were thousands of disks, thousands of videos," said Sonoma County Deputy District Attorney Gary Medvigy, who personally referred to Asimov's home as a "processing center" for child pornography. "Anything imaginable regarding sex between human beings and human beings, or human beings and animals, was there. Whatever your imagination can conjure up, he had it."[.]
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The Sonoma County District Attorney J. Michael Mullins covered up the case, let the public believe the feds would prosecute it more thoroughly, and then passed the cover up to U.S. Attorney [Robert] Mueller.
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Medvigy tried to convince the public that the reason for the dismissal was that his office was limited in its ability to investigate the sources and possible distribution of the ``enormous'' amount of child pornography found in Asimov's home. Medvigy also cited the fact that much of Asimov's porn came from the internet and involved out-of-state and international sources, which made it more appropriate for federal authorities to take over.
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At this point, [Sonoma County District Attorney] J. Michael Mullins apparently wanted the public to believe that the federal government was going to do a much more extensive prosecution of Asimov than Sonoma County authorities were able to do.
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Deputy District Attorney Medvigy stated about the dismissal, "We had hoped to show that it was not just for his personal viewing pleasure.'' U.S. Attorney Mueller delivered a sweet plea bargain to Asimov.
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In the summer of 1999, U.S. Attorney Mueller engaged in plea deal with Asimov, by dropping two counts. At this point, Asimov and his attorney were close to obtaining a sentence which would not involve state prison or forfeiture of assets.
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Mueller dropped the ball on the Asimov case. Because of the sealed grand jury testimony and sealed evidence, the public will never know the details about the one thousand of images of child pornography Asimov used and created and stored. The public is expected to believe that Asimov never distributed any of this pornography. From whom did he obtain this pornography. No public evidentiary hearings were ever held. Mueller did a good job protecting child pornographers in California.
Sure seems like Mueller is the go-to "fixer" for DEM pedos, doesn't it? Mueller, not Acosta, is the person who helped Epstein get a cushy sentence, just as he did for David Asimov.Judge Maxine Chesney let Asimov skate federal prison by using psychiatric evidence as a basis for the sentence.
Ultimately, U.S. District Judge Maxine Mackler Chesney gave Asimov an incredibly light sentence. No prison. The plea bargain limited her sentencing options, yet she still could have sent Asimov to prison for several years. Instead, she took the road laid out for her by various psychiatrists.
Asimov's attorney Andrian hired psychiatrists to examine his client. Then Judge Chesney, herself, appointed a psychiatrist to examine Asimov. Apparently, the psychiatric reports about Asimov and all his problems were somewhat convincing, or at least established a basis in the record for such a light sentence.
The public will never know. These reports are sealed. Judge Chesney was nominated by Senator Diane Feinstein and is the wife of former San Francisco Superior Court Judge Edward Stern.
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U.S. Attorney Mueller, District Attorney J. Michael Mullins, the Santa Rosa Police, the FBI and U.S. District Court Judge Maxine Chesney all taught Mr. Asimov his lesson. They also taught a lesson to the children depicted in Asimov's 1000 video tapes, who suffered during the making of these brutal sexual exploitation tapes. These children, unlike Asimov, will not be able to put this matter behind them. Their fate, if they are still alive, makes Asimov's six-month sentence of six months of sitting at his home with an electronic monitoring bracelet on his ankle, look like a day at the beach.
The Manhattan DA’s office once went to bat for billionaire pervert Jeffrey Epstein, after botching a review of his sex crimes and swallowing his lawyers’ claim that “there are no real victims here,” records obtained by the Post show.And from The NY Post Page Six (October 2018): Another Harvey Weinstein prosecutor quits DA’s office.
Assistant DA Jennifer Gaffney, then-deputy chief of Cyrus Vance Jr.’s sex-crimes unit, in January 2011 asked a Manhattan judge to downgrade Epstein’s status in the New York sex-offender registry from the most-dangerous Level 3 to least-restrictive Level 1.
The judge was stunned.
“I have never seen the prosecutor’s office do anything like this,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Ruth Pickholz told Gaffney. “I have done many [cases] much less troubling than this one where [prosecutors] would never make a downward argument like this.”
A second member of the Harvey Weinstein prosecution team quit the Manhattan DA’s Office last month amid controversy over whether the lead investigator — or lead prosecutor — covered up damaging evidence against an accuser, The Post has learned.What to make of all this? That Comey's daughter is the new version of Jennifer Gaffney. That Comey's daughter will attempt to undermine the case against Epstein or seek a downgrade in the charges against him? That the political incestuousness involving Epstein, Weinstein, Comey, Mueller, the Clintons and other power-players within the DEM party involved in this scandalous and disgusting exploitation of children and sex-trafficking must be brought to justice.
Veteran prosecutor Jennifer Gaffney, deputy chief of the Sex Crimes Unit, was thrown a going-away party on Sept. 20, sources said Monday.
More support on Mueller corruption – his FBI never interviewed all the victims.
Hugely important dates:
9/27/2007: Epstein signs the non-prosecution agreement
10/31/2007: Internal emails show that FBI agents still had not interviewed all the victims. pic.twitter.com/xKI6fk09dj
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) May 25, 2018
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Mueller’s FBI required Epstein to provide information to the FBI –
Here's the thing: I'm seeing nothing in Epstein's 2007 plea deal with the DOJ that required him to provide information to the FBI. (see pics)
This begs the question of whether there was a separate agreement – still undisclosed – with the FBI. pic.twitter.com/fLQ00Q50jc
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) May 25, 2018
