Epstein case: victims file complaint against the FBI

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Jeffrey Epstein before Judge Richard Berman and his lawyer Martin Weinberg, in a drawing made on July 31, 2019 in a New York court.

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Twelve women claiming to be victims of American financier Jeffrey Epstein, accused of sex crimes and trafficking but who committed suicide in prison before being tried, filed a civil complaint Wednesday against the FBI federal police for his “failures” to dismantle the alleged criminal's network.

For more than two decades, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) enabled Jeffrey Epstein to sex traffic and sexually assault scores of children and young women by failing in its mission that the American people had the right to expect.

A quote from Excerpt from the complaint of the 12 women identified by a pseudonym

Had the FBI fulfilled its obligations to investigate and intervene, Epstein would not have been able to carry out the heinous crimes, sexual assaults and trafficking, the plaintiffs say in a court document filed Wednesday in federal court in Los Angeles. Manhattan.

The 12 women, who demand a civil trial, denounce repeated and continuous failures, delays, inactions of the FBI who allowed Epstein and others to continue their sex trafficking conspiracy for nearly 25 years.

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Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

They mention, for example, a first report in August 1996 to the FBI of & #x27;a woman, Maria Farmer, against Jeffrey Epstein and his companion and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of British tycoon Robert Maxwell, who has been serving a 20-year prison sentence in New York since 2022.

The complainants even accuse the FBI of concealment in its investigations, but without providing any factual elements.

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At the beginning of January, a judge from this same court had made public a list of names, contacts, acquaintances, relatives, victims or alleged accomplices of Epstein.

Among these 150 to 180 identities, we find former US presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump, but without mention of any illegal or reprehensible behavior on their part.

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Prince Andrew in 2022 (archives) .

The British Prince Andrew is also mentioned many times.

< p class="StyledBodyHtmlParagraph-sc-48221190-4 hnvfyV">Friend of the Maxwell-Epstein couple, he sealed an amicable agreement in 2022 – for $13 million according to the Daily Telegraph – with the American Virginia Giuffre who accused him of sexually assaulted her in 2001 when she was 17.

Disgraced 63-year-old prince denies.

The influence of the Epstein network fueled, after his death, a number of conspiracy theories about an assassination disguised as suicide in August 2019 in a New York prison.

But forensics and the FBI concluded that&#x27 ;he did kill himself and that this death was not the result of a criminal act, which was confirmed in 2023 by the Ministry of Justice.