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Billionaire Sex Offender Clarifies He's Not a Sexual Predator

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Billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein was recently released from prison after serving 13 months in jail for soliciting a minor for prostitution, and he's back in his natural habitat on the Upper East Side. But don't let that fool you into thinking he's learned any humility from his legal troubles: he made it clear to the Post yesterday that a rich perv by any other name is still a rich perv. "I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender.' It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel," Epstein posited.

Aside from the semantics, a NY state judge ruled last month that Epstein is a level 3 sex offender, which means he's at "high risk" to repeat his offense, and poses "a threat to public safety." But Epstein clarified that, "The crime that was supposedly committed in Florida is not a crime in New York." Well, let's do some clarifying ourselves: Epstein was convicted in Florida of soliciting three underage girls, including a 14-year-old and a transexual 16-year-old, for sex. He was also accused of routinely paying girls as young as 14 for sexual massages; of molesting girls he had brought in from South America and Europe; and once was allegedly given three 12-year-old girls from France as a "birthday gift."

But Epstein made a deal with Feds, and they agreed to drop their probe of the various sex-crime allegations if Epstein admitted to prostitution felonies in Florida state court. Perhaps worst of all, other sex crime pervs are now using Epstein's case, and his sweetheart deal, to ask for leniency in their own cases. If he's good enough to take a stroll through Central Park with Prince Andrew, then he's good enough for a defense strategy!

Epstein is now listed in the NY State Sex Offender Database, but his current address is listed in Florida, even though he's in the city. But considering that even when he was in jail, he was routinely visited by a motley cadre of characters including his alleged 23-year-old Yugoslavian sex slave and a Russian mixed-martial-arts fighter, we can't imagine he won't get into some more trouble soon enough.

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  • suetiggers

     We can think people who commit these kinds of offenses are awful people.  We can think they're disgusting, sleazes,etc.  But there is a very big difference between thinking this about them and they're being DANGEROUS.  Yet, with the sex offender laws, there are very few distinctions made and with every other crime, there ARE distinctions made.

    Even the man who started it all has learned:

    'The system is
    broken. It’s overwhelme and I think the
    public

    is starting to
    realize that.  You can’t paint sex
    offenders with

    a broad brush.'   (John
    Walsh, father of Adam Walsh)

    http://www.oncefallen.com/badg...     

    Fact: A recent study by the
    Department of Justice (DOJ) found that MOST level 3 sex offenders are less
    likely to re-offend than level 1 offenders.  Fact: Former
    sex offenders have one of the lowest re-offense rates of all
    offenders, 3.5% according to the DOJ. Other studies put the number at
    3.38% and 5% depending on the criteria of the study. However in every
    instance where a study removes those deemed likely to re-offend, the
    percentage drops below .00 percent.  Fact: The truly
    dangerous offenders make up less than 5 percent of the total number
    on the national registry according to the DOJ. And yes they can
    determine who these people are if they choose to do so.  Fact:
    The hype in the media over a few high profile cases is the cause for
    many of the misconceptions the public has about the (average) former
    sex offender. You know; the ones that the DOJ has found to have 94.7
    percent rate of never re-offending. Yes, many of these people are
    level three offenders.  Fact: Under the Adam Walsh Act, the
    tier levels are set by the original offense rather than risk
    assessments. It is this flaw in the system that is creating a
    registry that is becoming overwhelming to law enforcement and giving
    the public the impression that every lever 3 offender is a true
    danger, when in fact the DOJ has proven this to be 100 percent false.
     Fact: The No. 1 cause of unnatural death among former
    offenders is vigilantism (murder). And many times this vigilantism is
    spurred on by the media.  Fact: Currently former offenders
    incur a greater threat of vigilantism than any other group.   

    http://www.thecrimereport.org/...

    http://ilvoices.com/media/2394...

    http://www.reformsexoffenderla...

    Read Jim and Nancy Petro's book "False
    Justice" and Richard Wrights' "Sex Offender Laws: Failed
    Policies, New Directions" See the movie "Conviction"
    and Sean Penn's "Witch hunt"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  • People who have tons of money, like this man, need to join SOSEN.ORG and help get these draconian and unconstitutional laws fixed.

    http://sexoffenderissues.blogs...
    http://sosen.org

  • cfcoklahoma

    "I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender.' It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel," Epstein is correct.

    One may not like him for many reasons but what is illegal in Florida may be legal in many states.

    The vast majority listed as "predators" are in fact NOT predators.

    Florida will not reveal their "habitual" rate for a reason. It's very very low.

    Example: Oklahoma has had the SORA since November 1, 1989. 22 years and their habitual rate is approximately 1/3 of 1 percent. Yet, you will not hear a politician or the media tell you that. Votes and ratings through fear mongering are the norm.

  • The lack of logic to Epstein's rationalizations about predatory sexual behavior and the law are Theodore Blumberg worthy. Doing what you've gotta do compared to what you must be comfortable with. Be loud and proud I say to Espetein. Show us exactly what a crazy creeper you are.

  • hotguy

    You see
    Go on wall street
    Become rich and
    This is the result?
    I hope the victims can sue him for at least half if his dough
    He did this in palm beach. I probably drove by this douches house on palm beach didn't even know if

  • jibbly

    Save face you scumbag, use your billions to fight global child prostitution.

    (This will never happen.)

  • Keith_Richard_Radford_Jr

    being in the position to do both and hold the key too both captures explains why arms dealers traffic sex and want to command incarceration of those that don't

  • NlGGAZ

    Dude why don't you just get a of age girl who looks underage? would solve all your problems.

  • Guest

    He may not like Asians.

  • Keith_Richard_Radford_Jr

    finding some one that wants you for you despite age is more like it.

  • freddynyc

    I guess even underdeveloped Asian girls have standards...

  • Keith_Richard_Radford_Jr

    Not really, I was in Asia for some time and one under age girl offered her self on what looked like a trap the predators out hunting sex offender look like in the US. She could not believe her ears when I told her she's too young and I don't have an interest in under age girls, so she said, "you don't mind if i lie do you to get attention, then I can get more attention when I am confronted and say I lied", I asked her "you would do that?" Why do they lie? meaning the ones she was going too lie too, and she said ALL THE TIME! and they eat it up, they like me, then introduced me to a man that cuts off kids feet and leaves them in their shoes.

  • He should be behind bars. He WILL repeat his crimes.

  • Keith_Richard_Radford_Jr

    merfderf : sorry too burst your bubble buba but you live under a cloud of dumb like a bag of bowling balls some day it will hit you that your not right.

  • airtech1

    Actually, you're a sociopath.

    "Rich people aren't crazy, we're eccentric."

  • Keith_Richard_Radford_Jr

    I have read the study and a 3.5 margin rates it right along with salt and pepper and if I am not mistaken pepper is on the table at our local Berger joint an oral sex is on the table with a good marriage, but lets get real,,,background checks make imbeciles rich off worthless information because people change from day to day just like night and day, the push for laws that only bankrupt a nation are laws we can all do without, and a central data base with names that stay the same for the chair and not the person when called upon too ask for info shows the design was for lasting stupidity,,,not service but oppression.

  • The Irish Black Rose

    Reeks of a recent Law & Order : SVU episode even down to the cherry deal with the Feds.

  • That's because Law and Order: SVU based the episode on Epstein.

  • freddynyc

    These cockroaches have truly become the bane of our society, haven't they?

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