Protection from Above. From Rolling Stone:
According to the OPR report, Special Agents assigned to investigate Epstein were repeatedly frustrated with Main Justice’s refusal to arrest and prosecute the now deceased criminal. “The FBI had ‘wanted to arrest [Epstein] in [the] Virgin Islands during a beauty pageant . . . where he [was] a judge.’ The case agent recalled that she and her co-case agent were disappointed with the decision, and that the Supervisory Special Agent was ‘extremely upset’ about it,” the report found.
OPR investigators also detail how Maria Villafana, the Assistant U.S. Attorney overseeing the prosecution, was blocked from moving forward with a planned arrest of Epstein. Villafana had coordinated with the FBI to take Epstein into custody on May 15, 2007, and the FBI had scheduled a press conference for the same day. But according to the report, DOJ managers in Miami prevented her from moving forward with the plan.
Gee. That was when W Bush was smirking his way through all manner of treason. Still: This is news to Corporate McPravda, re Epstein case. Intimidating the FBI to ignore criminal behavior, however, is old school since the days of Frank Costello and J. Edgar Hoover.
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