I
didn't do anything wrong - I don't know those accusers
I never even met them
Update
on the following story here from Daily Kos: What is known is that billionaire Jeffrey Epstein systematically abused young girls for
years, possibly decades. Trump’s DOL Secretary,
Alex Acosta, then a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of FL, allowed
Epstein to cut a sweetheart deal, admitting guilt but serving 13 months in prison
instead of a possible life sentence. The deal
was lightened even further with Epstein being allowed to work in an office
outside of the prison for 12 hours a day.
Trump
apologist and famous celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz has been implicated at various times over
the past few years as being a part of the young girl human trafficking ring
along with Epstein.
Dershowitz
has always maintained his innocence. Now, the Daily News reports that
in a public transcript available in Manhattan’s federal court, Sarah Ransome says she was trafficked by Epstein to have sex with Dershowitz when
she was in her 20’s.
Dershowitz denies these allegations, arguing that Ransome has a history
of making outrageous sexual assault claims, and that he has never even met the
woman — who lives in Barcelona. He has threatened to sue for defamation.
However, Ransome is not the first person to link Dershowitz with
Epstein’s abhorrent crimes.
Virginia Roberts was the first alleged Epstein victim to claim that he
directed her to have sex with Dershowitz. Dershowitz insists he also has never
met Roberts, who now lives in Australia.
A second alleged trafficking victim of financier and pedophile Jeffrey
Epstein has reportedly claimed the billionaire “directed” her to have sex with
Alan Dershowitz — but the renowned lawyer has dismissed her claim as “delusional,” saying he’d never met her.
Sarah Ransome’s allegation against Dershowitz — who previously
represented Epstein — is included in a public transcript in Manhattan federal
court.
Ransome has sued Epstein and his alleged
madam, Ghislaine Maxwell, saying they
trafficked her for sex from 2006 to 2007.
Maxwell attorney Laura Menninger
mentioned the allegation against Dershowitz during a hearing on Ransome’s case,
saying: “Ransome has alleged not only that my client ran a sex-trafficking
organization, but she claims also that she was directed by my client and the
Epstein defendants to have sex with third parties, including Alan Dershowitz,
for example.”
Dershowitz strongly denied ever meeting Ransome and said “none of this happened.”
In a statement to The Daily Beast
provided through a spokesperson, Dershowitz said of Ransome: “I never met
her. If she claims I did, I challenge her to go on the record and accuse me of
having sex with her. She won’t because it never happened and if she were to
falsely allege that it did, I would sue her for defamation.”
Dershowitz
described Ransome as mentally unstable and said she’d previously claimed to be
in possession of sex tapes involving President Trump and both Bill and Hillary
Clinton.
Virginia Roberts was the first alleged Epstein victim to claim that he
directed her to have sex with Dershowitz — he also denies meeting her.
Roberts alleged that Maxwell recruited her for Epstein in 1998, when
she was 15 years old and working a summer job at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
Roberts sued Maxwell for defamation, claiming the media heiress smeared
her by denying the disturbing sex scheme.
Dershowitz
has argued that the items being leaked to the press are suspiciously selective,
and that he has pushed for all of those transcripts to be released to the public,
arguing that those documents would show Dershowitz has proven he was not even
present at events where the alleged abuses took place and related
to that is here from his wife (January
5, 2015 article).
My 2 cents: This is a very interesting story from many points of
view as noted above. Seems it has a long way to go. Stay tuned.
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