…as seen by my ontological remote vision.
Aside from the conspiracy theories, people are talking about this like its mysterious. Its not.
The guy’s whole life was flout civil society’s rules hedonism funded by screw people & blackmail, self-justified by I’m the smartest guy in the room & you only go around once atheism. Really… Some criminals are obviously ‘not self-conscious’ sociopaths and they do what they do and cause mayham. This guy was not, he had a philosophy, see above.
So if you’re Epstein and 66 and your very good lawyers have told you your double jeopardy argument is good on the merits but no one is going to affirm it and you will spend the rest of your life in prison, you say… well, its been a nice ride and you hang yourself. Prison life pales a bit to the hedonism of having an island and a jet and a squad of teenage sex slaves. Why would he stay alive for imprisonment?
No one was bribed at MCC to grease the wheels. He tried to commit suicide before.. The relevant detail here now is they removed his cellmate on Friday (… he commits suicide on Saturday morning). The ambient malfeasance for an inmate to take advantage of is undoubtedly bottomless with the lying on the logs and sleeping on the job being the ground reality of corrections. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-corrections-officers-may-have-falsified-reports-saying-they-checked-on-financier-2019-08-13/
Other things that are meaningful observations:
*** Epstein is the real Pizza gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizzagate_conspiracy_theory I thought Douthat was the one who had a sentence here who made this point explicitly but my cntl F does not show the word pizza in his column. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-suicide.html
*** Where Epstein got his money… Well, it was all illicit right. His financial statement to the court was he had like $500m liquid at the bank, and the jet and the houses. Thinking he had more than that is probably not the right instinct, and so $500m becomes somewhat explainable. He had a piece of Leslie Wexner’s action and a piece of the Towers financial pyramid https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-worked-at-towers-financial-with-stephen-hoffenberg-who-committed-ponzi-scheme-crimes/, and then there as the business of being a bag man for this and that money laundering, which was his business specialty back in the day. Just to say, the journalistic treatments can move this into the realm of the non-mysterious also.
*** When Acosta resigned the detail I keyed onto was this conversation he had with the Trumpists in 2017 when he was going to be made Labor Secretary. They asked, say, you were awful lenient on Epstein in Palm Beach, why was that? And Acosta says, I was told to back off, intelligence owns him… Ya know, the submissiveness and deference there from a United States Attorney in the interests of something ‘not justice’ are kinda astonishing. Its just one of these things that tells you, justice is never the reason decisions are made at the justice department, and it applies to everything…pick your topic, Michael Brown, Martha Stewart, James Comey….
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