July 15, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein due in court to request house arrest while awaiting trial
Lawyers say home detention, electronic monitoring and bond on his $77m mansion will keep client from fleeing country In response papers filed on Friday, prosecutors said Jeffrey Epstein is dangerous and poised to flee. Photograph: Handout ./ReutersJeffrey Epstein, the financier jailed since his arrest earlier this month for the alleged sex trafficking of minors, is due in Manhattan federal court on Monday morning over his request for house arrest while awaiting trial.Lawyers for Epstein, who is a registered sex offender following a case in Florida 11 years ago, insist a combination of home detention and electronic monitoring and a mortgage-backed bond on his $77m Manhattan mansion will be enough to keep their client from fleeing the country.Since his 2008 guilty plea to state prostitution charges and subsequent 13 months behind bars, “Mr Epstein has been a law-abiding citizen without a single allegation of criminal misconduct during that period and has focused his efforts on business and philanthropy”, his lawyers claimed in court papers.Epstein’s legal team also said they would offer his private jet as collateral and that a “trustee or trustees will be appointed to live in Mr Epstein’s residence and report any violation to pretrial services and/or the court”.In response papers filed on Friday, prosecutors said Epstein was dangerous and poised to flee.Authorities “discovered hundreds or thousands of nude and seminude photographs of young females” in his Manhattan home on the night of his arrest, they said. Prosecutors also maintained that electronic monitoring “would merely give the defendant less of a head start in fleeing” and dismissed his house arrest pitch as a request to live in a “gilded cage”.They also alleged that Epstein wired several hundred thousands of dollars “to influence” two possible witnesses.“Multiple” accusers have asked prosecutors to seek Epstein’s detention throughout his case, court documents said.Epstein, who purportedly had ties to Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and other powerful men, is charged in a 13-page indictment with sex trafficking and sex trafficking conspiracy. The Manhattan US attorney’s office has alleged that some victims were just 14 years old.They contend that from 2002 to 2005, Epstein “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls” and paid some victims to recruit others “in order to maintain and increase his supply of victims”.These accusers were lured to provide massages “which would be performed nude or partially nude”, the indictment claimed, saying these massages would turn “increasingly sexual in nature, and would typically include one or more sex acts”.Prosecutors have also claimed that at Epstein’s New York home, “the massage room is still set up the same way it was 15 years ago”, with sex paraphernalia and a massage table.The New York case comes amid increasing scrutiny of Epstein’s prior case that was spurred by a bombshell Miami Herald investigation.In 2007, Epstein and the US attorney’s office in Miami, then led by Alexander Acosta, brokered a deal that ended a federal investigation into allegations involving at least 40 teenage girls.Acosta resigned as Trump’s labor secretary on Friday, following extensive criticism.Epstein pleaded not guilty to the charges last Monday.A week later, reporters, photographers and cameramen gathered outside an entrance of the federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan. It was unclear whether waiting for hours under an increasingly hot sun would prove fruitful. If Epstein is detained, it will not be possible to take any new pictures of him.



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