"A horrible miscarriage of justice"
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🗓️ 21 December 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Just a warning. Today's show is about a series of sex crimes against young women and girls. |
| 0:10.4 | The details are appalling. We'll start in a few seconds. |
| 0:16.7 | Julie Brown, we've known for years that Florida Multimillionaire named Jeffrey Epstein |
| 0:21.5 | did appalling things to young women. Some of them have already spoken up about it, but |
| 0:26.4 | in your reporting for the Miami Herald, you recently found evidence that added to these |
| 0:31.5 | numbers. Now we know at least 80 women were sexually abused and raped or rented out to |
| 0:38.6 | other wealthy, powerful people. What exactly happened here? |
| 0:43.3 | Epstein was a multimillionaire hedge fund manager who began his career on Wall Street with |
| 0:49.0 | Bear Stearns. He was able to ingratiate himself with some very important and wealthy people |
| 0:55.5 | who he persuaded to invest in his company. And these people wanted to be around him because he |
| 1:02.2 | also had a lot of money and he was willing to donate to their foundations. |
| 1:05.8 | Who are we talking about with these famous, powerful people? |
| 1:08.9 | You know, we know that former president Bill Clinton had flown on one of his private jets |
| 1:13.4 | quite a number of times. We know that Donald Trump had been on his plane and had been at some of his |
| 1:18.6 | parties. There were plenty of celebrities that were around him, David Copperfield, |
| 1:24.2 | Naomi Campbell, Kevin Spacey, just a lot of really high profile people that he surrounded himself with. |
| 1:32.2 | And while he was rubbing elbows with these powerful people and throwing parties for them |
| 1:37.9 | and making donations to their various causes and fundraisers and charities, |
| 1:42.2 | what was he doing behind the scenes? |
| 1:44.1 | He had an obsession with very young girls. |
| 1:47.1 | We now know that in the early 2000s, he would lure these teenage girls in Palm Beach |
| 1:57.8 | into his home. The girls would be offered $200 to $300 to give an old man a massage. |
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