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All right, let's get to breaking news now.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein is under arrest tonight on sex trafficking charges.

According to court documents, the FBI seized a vast trove of lewd photographs of young-looking women or girls during a search over the weekend.

Federal prosecutors allege that between 2002 and 2005, Epstein paid underage

girls as young as 14, hundreds of dollars to massage him or have sex with him at his townhouse

in New York City or his mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. Epstein has surrounded himself with a high-profile

circle of friends, including then-private citizen Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, and

former President Bill Clinton, who reportedly took more than two dozen trips on Epstein's

private jet between 2001 and 2003.

Though the national media are all over the Epstein indictment this week, the story didn't

just happen overnight. In fact, it's been hanging around

like a bad smell for years. Our WNYC colleague and host of Here's the Thing, Alec Baldwin,

picks up the narrative. Last year, Julie Brown of the Miami Herald, conceived, reported,

and wrote one of the most explosive criminal justice

stories in recent memory. She tracked how the U.S. Justice Department shut down an FBI

investigation that may have been on the verge of discovering the full extent of a child

sex trafficking operation run by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.

The U.S. attorney in charge of that case was none other than Alex Acosta,

now the United States Secretary of Labor under Donald Trump.

As punishment for recruiting underage girls to perform sex acts at his Palm Beach

mansion, Epstein spent barely a year in the local lockup with a liberal daily work release.

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