Hi, this is Roberta Glass and welcome to my true crime report. I just want to report on a story

that just hit my inbox via my friend Alexa. You might know her from my podcast about Anan Sayyad, but she sent me this article about Jeffrey Epstein just being arrested in the

Southern District of New York for sex trafficking. So I just want to read you the article that

hit the Daily Beast. Billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was arrested for allegedly

sex trafficking dozens of minors in New York and Florida between 2002 and 2005.

And will appear in court in New York on Monday, according to three law enforcement sources.

The arrest by the FBI NYPD Crimes Against Children Task Force comes about 12 years after the 66-year-old financier essentially got a slap on the wrist for allegedly molesting dozens of underage girls in

Florida. For more than a decade, Epstein's alleged abuse of minors has been the subject of

lawsuits brought by victims, investigations by local and federal authorities, and exposés in the press, but despite the attention

cast on his alleged sex crimes, the hedge funder has managed to avoid any meaningful jail time,

let alone federal charges. The new indictment, which according to two sources, will be unsealed Monday in Manhattan

Federal Court, will reportedly allege that Epstein sexually exploited dozens of underage

girls in a now-familiar scheme, paying them cash for massages, quote-un-unquote,

and then molesting or sexually abusing them in his Upper East Side Mansion or his palatial

residence in Palm Beach. Epstein will be charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors, which could put him away for a maximum of 45 years.

The case is being handled by the Public Corruption Unit of the Southern District of New York with assistance from the

district's human trafficking officials and the FBI. Several of the billionaires' employees

and associates allegedly recruited the girls for Epstein's abuse and some victims eventually

became recruiters themselves.

The girls were as young as 14 and Epstein knew they were underage according to the details of the arrest, an indictment shared by two officials.

Epstein's attorney, Martin Weinberg, declined to comment when reached by the Daily Beast on Saturday night.

The Southern District of New York was also declined to comment.

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