The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40483416

At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the public.

The missing files, which were available Friday and no longer accessible by Saturday, included images of paintings depicting nude women, and one showing a series of photographs along a credenza and in drawers. In that image, inside a drawer among other photos, was a photograph of Trump, alongside Epstein, Melania Trump and Epstein’s longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    10 hours ago

    Didn’t have to be, though, now did it?

    Just the ones in the right place at the right time. You don’t need to have an entire organization on board to control and minimize the risks. That is why, for example, Epstein targeted as many politicians as he has. He wasn’t catering to their every whim because it was profitable, it was protection.

    Not just politicians, either. Leaders in agencies, the people in the right places at the right time. So that when it finally came to it, he got that sweetheart deal where he basically just used Club Fed as a hotel. And you’ll notice that Maxwell is getting the same treatment?

    • grue@lemmy.world
      21·
      9 hours ago

      Didn’t have to be, though, now did it?

      Just the ones in the right place at the right time. You don’t need to have an entire organization on board to control and minimize the risks.

      And yet now they do anyway, which is a difference, which is my point.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 hours ago

        only after public pressure got his sentencing to be reviewed and he proved to be a liability, yes.

        Before that happened, though, he was quietly given a plea deal that basically saw him leaving Club Fed for work while basically just sleeping there. for a child predator as vile as he was… well. it was far from uncomfortable. he plead out to a relatively minor crime in exchange for immunity form prosecution for federal crimes, as well.

        once it entered widestream public consciousness, that definitely changed and people like, uh, trump, needed him dead.