PEDOGATE: Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr

Moralist Ken Starr Explains His Help For Billionaire Pervert Jeffrey Epstein

Andrew Kreig

Famed educator and legal scholar Ken Starr led a forum last week at the National Press Club to inspire faith-based instruction — and then was asked to describe why he had helped billionaire Jeffrey Epstein avoid serious prison time in 2008 on allegations Epstein had molested dozens of underage girls.

The president and chancellor of Baylor University, responding to a question after the close of a forum he led Feb. 4 on “The Calling of Faith-based Universities,” told me he was “very happy” to help serve a client of his former law firm, Chicago-based Kirkland & Ellis. Starr, a former federal judge and U.S. solicitor general, is shown at left.

Thus, as so often the case in public life in the nation’s capital, a stark contrast arose between high-minded rhetoric and subservience to the wealthy.

Today’s column summarizes the perverted practices of the globe-trotting Epstein, 62, shown in a photo at right. We next examine Epstein’s powerful friends, allies, and lawyers on a legal dream team that included Alan Dershowitz, Roy Black, Jay Lefkowitz, Gerald Lefcourt, and Martin Weinberg.

Following that, we report how the attorneys arranged a sweetheart plea deal for Epstein in 2008. Starr played a key role in arranging lenient treatment for Epstein, whose federal-state prosecution a decade ago occurred concurrently under the administrations of President George W. Bush and his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush (1999-2007) and Jeb Bush’s successor Charlie Crist (2007-2011), who had been state attorney general during the beginning of the Epstein case.

Updates:

• Reuters, Defamation lawsuits involving U.S. lawyer Dershowitz end in settlement, April 8, 2016.
• Daily Mail, Woman who claimed she slept with Prince Andrew while working as a sex slave is facing a legal backlash from two other men she claimed had relations with her, April 10, 2015.
• Newsmax, Judge Sides With Dershowitz, Strikes Claims in Epstein Case, April 8, 2015.

Earlier, the Daily Mail of London reported new developments Jan. 2 in Andrew and the under-age ‘sex slave’: Duke denies claim in court papers that teen was picked to sleep with him by Robert Maxwell’s daughter. According to recent court filings in Florida’s federal court:

A plaintiff “Jane Doe 3,” later identified as a California native Virginia Roberts, accused Epstein as treating her as a “sex slave” beginning when she was 15 as part of a massive sex trafficking operation he ran exploiting girls in their mid-teens, below the legal age of consent.

Roberts, now 31, claimed that Epstein farmed her out to other men, including Prince Andrew of the British royal family, Epstein’s attorney Dershowitz, and French modeling scout Jean Luc Brunel.

The California native said the photo below left portrays her at center with Prince Andrew, also known as the Duke of York, on a trip to London when she was 17 in 2001. At right was Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite daughter of the corrupt newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, who drowned in 1991 after toppling overboard from his yacht Lady Ghislaine. The death left one of the world’s largest media empires with a reported $3 billion in debts.

Roberts alleged that the Ghislaine Maxwell was girlfriend of the never-married Epstein’s who helped him both maintain contacts to top levels of society, recruited teenage sex consorts, and sometimes participated in the sex abuse, including of Roberts. The Roberts claims are part of her effort along with a Jane Doe 4 to join a suit filed six years ago by Jane Doe 1 and 2 against the federal government for violation of civil rights in agreeing to an overly lenient state plea deal for Epstein in 2008.

The federal-state agreement enabled Epstein to spend just eight hours a day in a county jail and for authorities to agree not to prosecute anyone else. South Florida lawyer and Ring of Fire radio host Mike Papantonio commented last week that the no-prosecution deal “is unheard of….That never happens.”

Maxwell, Epstein, Andrew, and Dershowitz are among those who have denied the major allegations by Roberts, as have federal authorities. Epstein, in his first formal remarks on the revived scandal, last month condemned the “media frenzy” surrounding the case. He wrote that he and his associates “have been the subject of the most outlandish and offensive attacks, allegations, and plain inventions.”

The prince issued a strongly-worded denial via Buckingham Palace, saying “any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors is categorically untrue.”

As a big picture, Epstein’s money-making talents were exceptional.

A list of Epstein’s contacts compiled by a Florida house manager listed access information for the Queen of England, the current King of Saudi Arabia, former President Clinton, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, rock stars at the Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson level, fashion gurus, media moguls, and financiers at the Rothschild and Rockefeller level, among dozens of others wealthy, powerful contacts.

Their precise relationships with Epstein remain unclear in many instances, which is a natural consequence of the slap-on-the-wrist plea deal for him that short-circuited disclosure in the courts.

A week ago, the Daily Beast focused heavily on Starr’s role in a column entitled, Conservative Scold Ken Starr Got A Billionaire Pedophile Off. Reporter M.S. Nestel described how Epstein faced life sentences if authorities pursued their heavy documentation that he had assaulted and exploited high school girls on a systematic basis. Instead, the billionaire was sentenced for a single state charge of soliciting a prostitution.

Epstein went to jail nights for 13 months in a special wing of a local jail, maintained his freedom during the day, and emerged in 2011 to scoff at his critics, as reported by the New York Post in Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein: I’m a sex offender, not a predator. The newspaper reported that imperious ex-con used his $50 million New York City mansion to celebrate his release from a Florida jail “with his close pal, Britain’s Prince Andrew.”

Starr is, of course, the former federal judge and the independent prosecutor whom fellow judge David Sentelle, a Federalist Society activist supervising the nation’s independent counsels for 14 years, had appointed to replace a prior investigator of President Bill Clinton’s Whitewater financial transactions.

Failing to find actionable evidence on his mandate of investigating Whitewater, Starr aggressively expanded his $70 million probe to pursue sex scandal allegations after he received a tip about about consensual sexual activity by youthful Defense Department employee, Monica Lewinsky, shown at right in an April 1997 photo.

Under Starr in January 1998, federal authorities ambushed Lewinsky while she was shopping at a food court in January 1998. She described in a 2014 Washington Post article, Lewinsky mistreated by authorities, her tears and panic while authorities held her during a 12-hour interrogation without a lawyer in a hotel room.

Agreeing finally to wear a wire to incriminate the president, Lewinsky helped Starr secure evidence that the president engaged in oral sex, leading to Clinton’s false denials of the acts. The House then impeached Clinton before he saved his presidency by narrowly winning acquittal in the Senate.

The Epstein case is worth studying in part because of the high stakes for sex scandals and blackmail at such levels. The Epstein scandal illustrates, yet again, a two-tiered American justice system where wealth and political influence can often win lenient treatment even in heinous, well-documented cases.

Furthermore, as we explore in a second part of our ongoing coverage this week, suppressed but videotaped sex scandals at this level of society and governance poses a serious threat of blackmail and other corrupt influence-peddling on major government and business decision-making.

As a preview: The Guardian on Feb. 7 published Video exists of underage sex with powerful men, based on a new affidavit Roberts filed the previous day. Her claim that the FBI likely possesses video alleges the goal of blackmail.

The plaintiff filings also claimed, “Epstein instructed Jane Doe #3 that she was to give the prince whatever he demanded and required Jane Doe #3 to report back to him on the details of the sexual abuse.” Roberts claimed that Epstein’s “‘lending’ of young girls to prominent international figures – foreign presidents and U.S. politicians and businessmen among them – was to ‘ingratiate’ himself and ‘so that he could potentially blackmail them.”

Roberts wrote also: “There were times when I was physically abused to the point that I remember fearfully thinking that I didn’t know whether I was going to survive,” Roberts said in a new court filing last week.

We have examined such matters for years at the Justice Integrity Project and in my recent book, Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters Too often, the bottom line in a court case is not merely the law but hidden politics.

In sum, the Epstein saga raises serious question about favoritism if not corruption in the courts even if plaintiffs’ allegations are overblown. The immunity agreement for alleged co-conspirators is so irregular that it reeks of a cover-up.

For busy readers, that is this column’s gist. Others should read on if interested in more detail.

This material includes amplification of Starr’s explanation of his work for Epstein and Starr’s advocacy, delivered last week along with the presidents of Yeshiva and Catholic Universities, for faith-based instruction to help guide students in navigating through difficult ethical issues they will face in their lives.

 

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Justice Scales For Jet-Setter Jeffrey Epstein

The Brooklyn-born Epstein started his career as a seventh-grade school teacher at the Dalton School, a private school on Manhattan’s East Side, then became a trader with Bear Stearns in the mid-1970s.

Epstein he built up assets of at least a billion dollars by astute investments, often in private trading with minimal disclosure requirements.

His homes included those in Manhattan, Florida’s Palm Beach, London, Paris, a ranch in New Mexico, and a private island called Little Saint James near St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands.

The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation has reportedly donated more than $200 million to individual scientists since 2000, including Stephen Hawking, Marvin Minsky, Eric Lander and many others. His foundation has convened many of these scientists in conferences to discuss such topics as gravity, threats to the earth, language, and cure for cancer.

We now focus on a darker side. A dozen years ago, the mother of a Florida high school student complained to authorities that her 14-year-old daughter had been paid $200 at Epstein’s mansion in Palm Beach.

This prompted an investigation that collected witness statements claiming that the never-married Epstein and his female cronies systematically recruited high school and other young girls to engage in sexual activities for money.

Much of it allegedly involved massages by girls stripped-down to their underwear of a naked or near-naked Epstein, who purportedly masturbated during the sessions and at times engaged or attempted to engage in other sexual activities. Walls of his mansion were reportedly profusely decorated with photos of naked or near naked girls from previous visits.

The definition of those underage for purposes of consent varies by state but is usually age 14 to 18.

Meanwhile, Epstein had pursued a jet-set lifestyle, sometimes accompanied by young females and famous political, business and other companions. The roster included Prince Andrew, 54, who is the second son and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip. Prince Andrew was second in line for the throne at one point.

Epstein’s friends and contacts included large numbers of other wealthy and powerful men and girls, according to an address book kept by Epstein’s Florida housekeeper Alfredo Rodriguez.

The Daily Mail reported last month that Rodriguez, who died Dec. 28 at age 60, kept a detailed ‘black book’ of dozens of young women that Epstein abused. “The houseman was sentenced to 18 months jail — the same term as his boss — in 2011 for failing to hand the journal to prosecutors. Instead he tried to sell it to defense lawyers for $50,000.” Rodriguez circled the names in the book he claimed were involved in sexual activities and we have reviewed that list, although it is of course unsworn and otherwise unauthenticated evidence.

The Smoking Gun reported that Epstein’s contacts, not necessarily sexual, included names like Bronfman, Rothschild, Stern, Bloomberg, Koch, Wexner, Zuckerman, Kravis, Rockefeller, Trump, plus celebrities, journalists, and socialites. “Some of the individuals listed appear to primarily be friends of Epstein’s ex-girlfriend/longtime sidekick Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been accused of wrangling underage massage talent for the shadowy investor.”

Epstein’s contacts, further illustrated by flight logs from his airplanes, contain names involved in the glamorous fashion, modeling, rock music, and race car worlds that would be especially alluring to young girls being recruited for Epstein’s sex trafficking operations. Despite pointed inquiries from the student Harvard Crimson newspaper, the university said after the scandal broke that it would keep a $6.5 million donation from Epstein because it funded important work. Epstein is shown relaxing with his counsel, Dershowitz.

The scope of the allegations and names of Epstein’s companies were kept low-key during the prosecution. The defendant accepted a plea deal with an 18-month part-time sentence on two counts, and emerged to freedom after 13 months, albeit with the label of sex offender.

Importantly in the view of critics, his conviction was a triumph of defense lawyering. The charge of soliciting a prostitute did not carry the stigma and penalties of systematic sexual abuse of girls not old enough to provide informed consent under the law. The age of legal consent varies widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction in the United States, but most states set the age between 14 and 18. Those adults found guilty of sexual activities with mid-teen minors are liable to such charges as child sexual abuse, statutory rape, illegal carnal knowledge, and corruption of a minor.

With the new allegations, newspaper headline writers have recently been describing Epstein as a “pedophile” based on his conviction and the scope of his activities. Roberts has described them as including filmed orgies and reflecting his interest in three girls as young as 12 sent as a so-called “gift” from Eastern Europe.

Many professionals, however, restrict the term pedophile to those focused primarily on child sex victims aged 13 or younger. Most of the evidence against Epstein suggests his focus was on those in the mid-teens. Furthermore, Epstein’s allies have denounced Roberts as a liar and “fantacist,” as reported the Guardian column Feb. 7, among other places. For such reasons, the description “pervert,” not “pedophile,” suffices here for now.

Update:  A reader provides a legal filing containing allegations of sufficient seriousness so that, upon reflection, Epstein can be fairly described as a “pedophile.”

A 39-page exhibit by a Palm Beach attorney, Bradley Edwards, cites evidence that Epstein molested one girl more than 50 times beginning at age 13 and that she was paid $200 apiece for recruiting more than 70 other underage girls to submit to similar treatment. Edwards cited evidence of other young female recruiters who brought multiple victims into Epstein’s mansion for similar fees. The evidence was for defense of a state court suit, Epstein v. Rothstein and Edwards, that the billionaire brought against two lawyers trying to make money by representing underage victims. Epstein dropped the suit in 2012 after defendant Scott Rothstein was charged with a major Ponzi scheme described below.

The lenient plea deal for Epstein without thorough follow-up infuriated one or more grunt-level investigators. At what must have been great risk for reprisal, one of them helped make sure the evidence became public on the Internet and elsewhere, usually with the victim names deleted to protect privacy.

The prosecution plea deal let authorities provide Epstein a modest sentence and barred prosecution (and thus even investigation) of any of Epstein’s many world-famous guests, traveling companions, sex trafficking junior accomplices, and other cronies.

The Plea Deal Reexamined

Columnist Wayne Madsen has combined the tabloid elements of the Epstein case with investigative dimensions based on his 14 years experience as a Navy Intelligence officer and recent inspection of the federal court file in West Palm Beach.

In four columns last month, Madsen reported that Epstein’s lawyers have fought a fierce but so far unsuccessful effort to seal documents.

Madsen has often reported that prominent members of politics and the media have secret intelligence ties. Madsen has, for example, reiterated Seymour Hersh’s 1991 scoop that the press lord Maxwell had been a longtime asset for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad before his death.

Madsen is among those who have also reported that the world’s largest insurance company, the American International Group (AIG), became after its founding by Ken Starr’s uncle, the late Cornelius V. Starr (1892-1968), a vital component of CIA operations in high-level intrigues spanning the globe.

Cornelius Starr’s successor beginning 1960 was his chauffeur’s son Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who would become both a multi-billionaire and a serious candidate in 1996 to become CIA director after authoring “Making Intelligence Smarter: The Future of U.S. Intelligence,” a major strategic memo published by the Council on Foreign Relations.

During the financial crisis of 2008-09, AIG received from the holdover Bush and incoming Obama officials approval for $182 billion in federal bailouts from taxpayers under suspicious circumstances — and then awarded its senior executives more than a billion dollars in bonuses.

Several years earlier, New York Attorney Gen. Eliot Spitzer, right, had infuriated AIG and other Wall Street executives by his aggressive investigations of AIG along with other Wall Street defendants whom Spitzer accused of securities fraud and similar white collar offenses. With complex operations in more than 100 nations, AIG had been reporting for years false profits on a massive scale.

But Spitzer’s bank reported to the U.S. Treasury Department financial transactions involving Spitzer, a Democrat who was by then New York’s governor potentially poised for a bright future as a corruption-fighter. Agents traced the governor’s spending to the Emperors Club, which turned out to be an escort service providing expensive call girls. The New York Times obtained leaked information from authorities. The newspaper reported on March 10, 2008 that Spitzer had used prostitutes on multiple occasions, including one repeatedly profiled.

In disgrace, Spitzer resigned as governor the same week, thereby illustrating to court watchers the dangers a corrupt life-style — especially when combined with investigating powerful entities. Clearly, even an investigator’s supposedly confidential personal banking information could find its way to the front page.

Wayne Madsen’s Jan. 23 column, Epstein plea deal with feds protected Bill Clinton and the House of Bush, reported how Madsen had obtained the “heretofore sealed Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) struck between lawyers for billionaire Florida registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and George W. Bush-era federal prosecutors.” The excerpt is cited with permission from his subscription-based site, The Wayne Madsen Report:

Epstein received the NPA after he was charged with soliciting sex from an alleged “prostitute.” However, the so-called “prostitute” was actually a 14-year old girl who was recruited by a network of Epstein’s employees who basically served as child sex traffickers and pimps. Lawyers for Epstein attempted to block federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Kenneth Marra from unsealing the NPA as per the wishes of attorneys for four child sex trafficking victims known as Jane Does 1 through 4. However, Marra decided to unseal the NPA on January 21 and WMR was present at the Paul G. Roberts Federal Building to obtain a copy of the NPA.

The NPA was agreed to on October 30, 2007 by U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta. Although Acosta later criticized the plea deal in an open letter, he did not respond to WMR’s request for an interview on the current case in which four of Epstein’s victims are suing the U.S. government claiming that the NPA violated their rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA). The victims, who are now adults, claim that the federal government’s NPA with Epstein violated the 2004 CVRA.

The government argues that because Epstein was never charged with a federal crime, the victims have no rights under the CVRA. In their request to Marra to unseal the NPA, the attorneys for the Jane Does, said that the federal government and Epstein colluded “to avoid a firestorm of public controversy that would have erupted if the sweetheart plea deal with a politically-connected billionaire had been revealed.”

The NPA was signed on behalf of Acosta by A. Marie Villafana, the then-Assistant U.S. Attorney for Southern Florida, who is now the U.S. Attorney under Attorney General Eric Holder. The plea deal with Epstein was concluded after the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami and the FBI investigated Epstein separately from the investigation conducted by the Palm Beach County Police Department and the Florida Attorney General’s Office. The deal cut between Acosta and Villafana and the state of Florida, which was then under the governorship of then-Republican Governor Charlie Crist and Republican Attorney-General Bill McCollum stated that the federal government would defer to Florida the prosecution of Epstein. Acosta has gone on to become the dean of the law school of Florida International University in Miami.

The NPA also stipulated that a list of individuals who the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami and the FBI has identified as victims of Epstein’s sexual abuse and trafficking would be provided to Epstein’s attorneys, who included Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz.

Jane Doe 3, identified as Virginia Roberts, has claimed that Dershowitz has sex with her while she was a minor. Dershowitz has vigorously denied the allegations and he has cited a “conspiracy” against him by anti-Semites who are getting even for his longtime support for Israel. Unsubstantiated conspiracy theories by Dershowitz aside, the fact remains that the NPA immunized all of Epstein’s co-conspirators — who allegedly include Dershowitz — former President Bill Clinton, and Prince Andrew of Britain from future federal prosecution.

The NPA states: “. . . the United States also agrees that it will not institute any criminal charges against any potential co-conspirators of Epstein, including but not limited to [alleged Epstein accomplices] Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Goff, or Nadia Marcinkova.” The NPA also suspended the federal grand jury investigation against Epstein and held in abeyance all federal grand jury subpoenas in the case against Epstein. These subpoenas presumably included those directed to witnesses in the case, individuals that likely include Dershowitz, Clinton, and Andrew.

Recent News

Epstein finished his part-time jail sentence in 2011. Vanity Fair, New York Magazine and the New York Post were among the occasional adverse profiles he endured. The Post reported in Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein: I’m a sex offender, not a predator that Epstein was still scoffing at his critics.

As it turns out, Epstein had cause for complaint. Scott Rothstein, a Palm Beach lawyer, developed a Ponzi scheme by which he boasted of huge settlements, including in Epstein case spin-offs, and then invite “investors” to share in the proceeds. Rothstein was sentenced to a 50-year prison term in a scam that bilked investors of $1.2 billion, as prosecutors described in this Palm Beach Post article in 2012: Billionaire sex offender drops suit against Scott Rothstein and one of his partners.

The filing by Virginia Roberts last year to join the ongoing “Jane Doe” case revived interest by making specific claims about debauchery by high-level figures.

Shown in a recent photo at right, Roberts, 31, said she was a runaway at age 11, and a “sex slave” for Epstein beginning at 15. At age 19, she said she received indications she was getting too old for him, and married an Australian. As reported in the Guardian story Feb. 7:

Dismissed as a liar and a fantasist by Epstein allies, Roberts filed with her affidavit on Friday previously undisclosed receipts for a flight from New York to Thailand in September 2002 and a stay costing several thousand dollars at the Royal Princess hotel in Chiang Mai. All the bills appeared to have been paid for by “J Epstein.”

Roberts, who says she was recruited for Epstein at 15, has previously alleged that she was sent on the Thailand trip by Epstein to learn Thai massage and interview a Thai girl “to bring back to the United States” for him. Instead, she says, she met a man whom she married and fled with him to Australia for more than a decade.

Government prosecutors say that Roberts was properly notified about the plea deal at the time it was struck and has waited too long to join the lawsuit. Roberts argues that she did not fully understand the letter sent to her by prosecutors and was too scared of repercussions from Epstein’s powerful friends to come out of hiding.

Prince Andrew is shown in a 2011 photo with U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, a former CIA director, at a function at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. The prince holds the title of Duke of York. Born on Feb. 19, 1960, he is the second son and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the time of his birth, the prince was second in the line of succession to succeed his mother. He is currently fifth in line.

The Smoking Gun (TSG), for example, reported this week in Inside Wealthy Pervert’s Massage “Black Book,” Senator’s galpal listed in Jeffrey Epstein’s rub roster Epstein’s “black book,” an exhibit to a court filing in a civil suit brought against Epstein by two of his minor victims, consisted of 181 pages that contain contact information for billionaires (Bronfman, Stern, Bloomberg, Koch, Wexner, Zuckerman, Kravis, Rockefeller), multimillionaires (Trump), celebrities, journalists, and socialites.

The Roberts claims alleging sexual exploitation by author, attorney and longtime Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, now a resident of Miami Beach, have been particularly prominent because he was a member of the Epstein legal team who helped choose Ken Starr. She claimed to have had sex with him six times.

Dershowitz denied assaulting Roberts or ever meeting her.

Miami television station WPLG and its reporter Bob Norman broadcast a two-minute interview on the topic Jan. 22: Alan Dershowitz: ‘Sex slave’ accuser is serial liar, ‘still a prostitute.‘ The station provided a transcript. 

“This is a woman who is a serial liar,” Dershowitz said. “She’s lied, lied, lied, lied.”

The law professor called her a “prostitute.” When the reporter asked whether she could have given informed consent to sex at such young age, Dershowitz said that’s a question for authorities, not him.

Ken Starr’s Full Response

We now revisit the Ken Starr-led forum Feb. 4 at the National Press Club, which was part of a series of Washington programs organized by Baylor, which is based in Waco, TX.

Baylor, founded in 1845, defines itself as a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution.”

Starr moderated a discussion with two other university presidents, John Garvey of Catholic University of America and Richard Joel of Yeshiva University. Baylor bought a promotional ad in the Sunday Washington Post for Feb. 1.

All three university presidents held J.D. degrees and have been law school professors. So, part of their remarks focused on the role of law in inspiring students and otherwise shaping a moral society. During Q&A, Starr read from audience questions submitted on cards. Each of the questions chosen dealt generally with the previous discussion.

None mentioned what I regarded as an elephant in the room: namely questions of morality faced by clerical leaders contending against human failings as old as human history.

Most notable in my mind was the Epstein case. But resonating also in the Washington area especially has been the arrest of a prominent rabbi, law professor and educator accused of secretly videotaping young female members of his congregation and at least one of his students at a local university while they took ritual baths at his suggestion. The New York Times reported the story as, Prominent Rabbi Arrested on a Charge of Voyeurism.

At the end of the last week’s event, I discovered an old friend was among the attendees and together we decided to approach the forum moderator, Starr. My friend’s father had been a White House correspondent in the 1960s. He has long been concerned (like the forum speakers) with the harm that lax moral standards cause society. As part of that, he is sensitive to gross injustice.

As Starr gathered up his lecture notes and prepared to leave, I took the lead in thanking the speaker for an enlightening discussion. He smiled in friendly fashion. What follows are my notes reconstructing the conversation immediately afterward.

“But since it is the Press Club,” I continued, “I hope you don’t mind if I ask a question.”

“Fire away!” he responded cheerfully. The Duke Law School graduate, a former law clerk to the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger from 1975 to 1977, has argued 36 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including 25 during his service as solicitor general from 1989 to 1993. So, he has every reason to be confident in handling any question.

“In view of the topic of tonight’s discussion,” I said, “isn’t it incongruous that you chose to represent Jeffrey Epstein?”

“I don’t think I want to answer that. This involves the attorney-client privilege.”

“I appreciate that because I’m a lawyer also. But I’m not asking for any privileged secrets. And I understand that everyone’s entitled to a lawyer. But why you?”

He paused a moment, and responded with slightly more formality, “I was very happy to respond to the needs of a client of the firm.”

We thanked him for his time and moved on. In a post-mortem outside, my friend told me, “Well, you got your answer. It’s about the money, isn’t it?”

This column could have ended right there.

But the situation points to a more important story that his actions, which we shall address soon in a Part II of this column.

Influential though the Baylor president has been, Ken Starr is a symptom of a much larger problem. The standard human frailties — summarized in the Ten Commandments, among other places — persist and often seem to prevail in the nation’s capital, as in so many other places.

As the Epstein case shows, society at its highest levels is rife with leaders skilled in rhetoric and other image-making. But many have achieved “success” in significant part by repulsive actions or at least tolerance of such practices among their colleagues.

A true test is whether each individual — and those coming up through universities, the Palm Beach police department’s grunt-level investigators, and elsewhere – fulfills ethical duties.

In that sense, the rhetoric of Starr and the two other faith-based university presidents last week serves an important purpose. So does, I hope, this column providing what the late newsman Paul Harvey used to call, “The rest of the story.”

 

Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book: A Sampler

Daily Mail, Houseman who cleaned pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s sex toys and feared he would make him ‘disappear’ takes billionaire’s secrets to the grave after he died just last week, Martin Gould, Jan. 5, 2015. Alfredo Rodriguez, Epstein’s houseman for many years, passed away last week, his widow Patricia Dunn told DailyMail.com. Court papers reveal that Rodriguez claimed he witnessed nude girls whom he believed were underage at the pool area of the home. He also claimed that Epstein viewed pornographic images of underage girls on his home computers. Rodriguez kept a ‘black book’ of Epstein’s — which he referred to as ‘The Holy Graiil.’ He tried to obtain $50,000 from lawyers for Epstein’s book. Ex-butler called it an ‘insurance policy’ because he was afraid Epstein would ‘make him disappear.’ The houseman went to jail in 2011 for failing to turn over the book. Alfredo Rodriguez, who was Epstein’s houseman for many years, passed away last week after a six-month battle with cancer, his widow Patricia Dunn told DailyMail.com. He carried many secrets of Epstein’s scandalous activities to his grave.

Black Book Names

Editor’s Note: Here are some of the better known names listed in a list of Jeffrey Epstein contacts maintained by his late, longtime Florida housekeeper Alfredo Rodriguez and now entered into the federal court docket in Miami.  We put top royalty and financial royalty in the first section and list others in alphabetical order. Rodriguez reputedly circled those names he believed involved in improper sexual activities in Florida. Of those on the top  part of the list, only Prince Andrew was circled. David Rockefeller — the last surviving grandchild of the nation’s richest person (inflation-adjusted), John D. Rockefeller — is scheduled to celebrate his 100th birthday this year.

Queen Elizabeth

Prince Andrew, Duke of York

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Salman (recently named king)

Edward de Rothschild

Evelyn de Rothschild

David Rockefeller

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Ehud Barak

David Blaine

Tony Blair

Michael Bloomberg

Edgar Bronfman

Jean Luc Brunel

Jimmy Buffet

Richard Branson

Bill Clinton

Philip Dunne

Ralph Fiennes

Princess Firyal, wife Prince Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan

Rocco Forte

Alan Dershowitz

Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore (Formula One)

Sarah Ferguson

Steve Forbes (Forbes magazine)

Katie Ford (former Ford modeling agency CEO).

David Frost

Mariella Frostrup

Lloyd Grossman

Liz Hurley

Michael Jackson

Mick Jagger

Edward Kennedy

Ethel Kennedy

John Kerry

Henry Kissinger

Edward Koch

Courtney Love

Lord Peter Mandelson

Eric Margolis

John Micklethwait (Economist editor in chief)

George Mitchell

Rupert Murdoch

David Putnam

Bill Richardson

Gerald Ronson

Charlie Rose

Jessica Rothschild

Hannah Rothschild

Jeffrey Sachs

Edmund Saffra

James Sainsbury

Rupert Soames

Peter Soros

Harry Sutherland

Hugo Swire

Alfred Taubman

Donald Trump

Ivana Trump

Barbara Walters

Les Wexner

Elie Wiesel

Shaun Woodward

Toby Young

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Updates

Reuters, Defamation lawsuits involving U.S. lawyer Dershowitz end in settlement, David Ingram, April 8, 2016. Prominent U.S. lawyer Alan Dershowitz and two victims’ rights attorneys on Friday withdrew claims from a Florida court that they defamed each other during a legal fight about a woman who said she was trafficked for sex as an underage girl.

“The parties believe it is time to take advantage of the new information that has come to light on both sides during the litigation and put these matters behind them,” the three lawyers said in a joint statement on Friday. The defamation lawsuits stemmed from claims that the woman, Virginia Giuffre, made in another court in December 2014 that she was forced as a girl to have sex with Dershowitz, the UK’s Prince Andrew, and other men. Dershowitz and Prince Andrew denied the allegations, and the allegations were later stricken from court records.

“Dershowitz completely denies any such misconduct, while not disputing Roberts’s [Giuffre] statements that the underlying alleged misconduct may have occurred with someone else,” the three lawyers said in the statement.

Palm Beach Post, Sex-abuse victims want to depose feds involved in Jeffrey Epstein deal, Michele Dargan, Jan. 1, 2016. Two underage victims of Palm Beach billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have filed court papers asking to depose top federal officials who were involved in inking the secret deal that saved Epstein from serious federal charges. FBI agents, current and former federal prosecutors, and Alexander Acosta, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, are named in the motion filed by attorneys Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell on behalf of Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2. The girls were 14 and 13, respectively, at the time of the sex abuse.

The victims filed the motion, in part, because of a new argument Assistant U.S. Attorney Dexter Lee made during a routine status check hearing in November, as reported in Epstein victims “complicit” so not truly victims, government says. Lee said the girls aren’t really victims because they procured other minor girls for Epstein and received money for it so they’re not protected under the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

“Apparently, the government believes that because Epstein pressured some of his young victims into performing sexual acts, those victims themselves were complicit in Epstein’s crimes and, therefore, are barred from seeking relief under the CVRA,” the motion says. “There has never been any public document (or other private document that we have seen) in this or any related case that has ‘accused’ Epstein’s young victims of committing ‘the crime’ that Epstein committed.”

Filed in 2008, the lawsuit says the U.S. Attorney’s Office violated the federal Crime Victim’s Rights Act by failing to confer with the victims before signing a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein in September 2007. The agreement saved Epstein from serious federal charges and extensive prison time. Edwards and Cassell are fighting to overturn the agreement.

Doe 1 and 2 received monetary settlements in civil cases. They are among more than two-dozen underage girls who filed lawsuits or settled claims against Epstein, alleging they were lured to his Palm Beach mansion to give him sexually charged massages and/or sex in exchange for money. Epstein, now 62, pleaded guilty in June 2008 to state charges of soliciting minors for sex. He served 13 months of an 18-month state sentence in a vacant wing at the Palm Beach County Stockade with liberal release privileges.

Palm Beach Daily News, Epstein victims “complicit” so not truly victims, government says, Michele Dargan, Nov. 24, 2015. More on Palm Beach billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein case. A court’s routine status check Monday on a 2008 federal lawsuit tied to Palm Beach billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s plea deal ended with a new allegation from the government. The two victims who filed the lawsuit — Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2 — aren’t actually victims because they procured other girls for Epstein and received money for it, Assistant United States Attorney Dexter Lee said in West Palm Beach federal court. If someone “is complicit in the offenses,” they can’t be considered victims under the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act , Lee said. “A Crime Victims’ Rights Act action is part of a criminal proceeding normally, but there’s nothing normal about this case,” Lee said.

Radar, Famed Attorney Acknowledges He Cannot Rule Out ‘Possibility’ Bill Clinton Was Involved In Orgy Island Sex Romp, Staff report, Oct. 29, 2015. Clinton is accused of frolicking with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s harem: Bill Clinton Jeffrey Epstein Orgy Island Alan Dershowitz Deposition. Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaign is about to be rocked by yet another bombshell thanks to her horndog husband, Bill: RadarOnline.com has learned that high-powered attorney Alan Dershowitz has acknowledged in a sworn deposition that he cannot rule out the “possibility” the former president took part in a depraved sex romp with under-age girls on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein‘s orgy island!

Epstein’s alleged sex slave Virginia Roberts first accused Clinton of visiting Epstein’s notorious island near St. Thomas in an affidavit filed in January. She’s suing the US Justice Department for how they handled Epstein’s plea deal. Her attorneys are suing Dershowitz for defamation, and now, Dershowitz is addressing the claims head-on in his own deposition in that case, taken on October 16.

According to a deposition transcript reviewed by Radar, Dershowitz recalled that Roberts had previously “described in great detail a dinner with Bill Clinton and two underaged Russian women who were offered to Bill Clinton for sex,” an incident she said occurred in 2002. And while he insisted that he believed that to be a “lie,” he acknowledged that he can’t prove it.

“There is the possibility, which I don’t personally believe to be true, that he was on the island,” Dershowitz said. “There was the possibility, which I don’t believe to be true, that he was on the island when orgies were taking place. There was the possibility that he was on the island and observed an orgy, and there was the possibility that he was on the island and participated in an orgy.”

Dershowitz said he’s doing everything he can to find out the truth about what really happened. “My attorney in New York, Louis Freeh, the former head of the FBI, has made a FOIA request for all information that would conclusively prove that Bill Clinton was never on Jeffrey Epstein’s island …,” he revealed.

Daily Mail, Woman who claimed she slept with Prince Andrew while working as a sex slave is facing a legal backlash from two other men she claimed had relations with her, Daniel Bates, April 10, 2015. The woman who claimed she slept with Prince Andrew while working as a sex slave is facing a legal backlash from two other men she claimed had relations with her. Virginia Roberts is being sued for defamation by US attorney Alan Dershowitz, who says he wants her jailed. Dershowitz said Roberts, 31, would have to give evidence under oath – and will perjure herself if she repeats her claims. Roberts has also been branded ‘despicable’ by model agency owner Jean Luc Brunel who said he is considering legal action of his own. Earlier this week, Judge Kenneth Marra ordered Miss Roberts’ claim that she was a ‘sex slave’ to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Andrew, to be struck from the record. Amid the other ‘lurid’ allegations removed from the record were claims that she slept with the Duke of York, Dershowitz and Brunel.

Newsmax, Judge Sides With Dershowitz, Strikes Claims in Epstein Case, Staff report, April 8, 2015. A federal judge today granted law professor Alan Dershowitz’s request to strike allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct from an ongoing lawsuit against convicted sexual offender and former Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit, filed in 2008, seeks to undo a non-prosecution agreement between federal prosecutors and Epstein, who the woman said arranged the sex with Prince Andrew and Dershowitz. Dershowitz has vehemently denied the claims as has the prince. Epstein has called the claims old and discredited. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra in West Palm Beach, Florida, ruled that it was unnecessary for the woman, known in court papers as Jane Doe No. 3, and another known as Jane Doe No. 4, to join the lawsuit at all, and struck down the sexual misconduct allegations. The judge wrote that he could still consider relevant evidence from Jane Doe Nos. 3 and 4, but that their participation in the case “as listed parties is not necessary in that regard.” Lawyers for the four women did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Editor’s Note: The judge’s dismissal of Jane Doe Nos. 3 and 4 from the case does not mean that the judge ruled on their credibility, only their standing to join the case.

Newsmax, Alan Dershowitz: I Will Now Confront My Lying Sex Accuser in Court! Bill Hoffmann, April 7, 2015. Famed legal scholar and author Alan Dershowitz tells Newsmax TV he’s going after the woman who accused him of sexual misconduct — after a federal judge on Tuesday ordered her allegations to be removed from an ongoing lawsuit against convicted billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The lawsuit, filed in 2008, sought to undo an agreement between federal prosecutors and Epstein, who the woman said arranged the sex with Dershowitz and Britain’s Prince Andrew. “We’ve been legally vindicated but my reputation has still been, unfortunately, tarnished in the minds of at least some people by a woman who just lied and made up a story out of whole cloth,” Dershowitz said on “The Steve Malzberg Show.” “I don’t know this woman, I never met her, and she made these false accusations, and there are some people who still believe it. Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor emeritus and Newsmax contributor who represented Epstein in his plea deal, said his team will now depose the woman, known as “Jane Doe 3.” “We will persuade the world that she made up the whole story out of whole cloth,” he told Malzberg. In addition, Dershowitz said he is suing his accuser’s lawyers for defamation. “And we’re considering suing her for defamation as well, but right now she was trying to hide in Colorado and avoid service, but we found her and we served her and now she’ll be subjected to a deposition,” he said. “And if she repeats what she said previously under oath, she will go to jail because what she said is a complete, total, made-up lie. Not only about me but about many other people.”

Daily Beast, Poor Guy, M.L. Nestel, March 26, 2015. Model King Sues Billionaire Perv Jeffrey Epstein. In a new lawsuit, the modeling mogul who has been accused of supplying Jeffrey Epstein with underage girls says the billionaire ruined his brand. The modeling agency kingpin who allegedly teamed up with pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein to supply his underage beauties is broke and wants payback. Jean Luc Brunel, the septuagenarian French co-owner of MC2 modeling agency and Karin Models, has filed a lawsuit against his convicted pal Epstein for supposedly losing him millions in profits and sending him into deep depression (he’s displaying the prescriptions and psychotherapy forms to prove it!), and he’s also picking a fight with with a no-name hosting website for tarring his rep.

The fall from grace over the past six months for the 71-year-old Brunel has been steep. The man who claims he discovered and “molded the careers” of Christy Turlington, Sharon Stone, and Milla Jovovich is apparently panicking and fears his modeling agency MC2 may be underwater, according to the lawsuit. In the suit, which was filed in a Florida court in January, Brunel paints a grim snapshot of his personal hell and claims it’s all because of one man, the guy with the ear-to-ear grin: Jeffrey Epstein. (Attempts to reach Epstein’s attorney for comment were unsuccessful.) Once Epstein landed back in the news over allegations he and his rich, powerful friends bedded underage girls, Brunel seems to have become radioactive. In the lawsuit, Brunel says he can’t recruit any more because the European gals know how to search his name online. In South America, moms refuse to entrust their daughters with a man who has been branded a sex trafficker. (Brunel has denied that he supplied girls for Epstein or his pals.) The effects, Brunel says, have him bleeding millions.

Editor’s Note: Virginia Roberts, portrayed on her Facebook page, now alleges that she was a teenage “sex slave” in Florida under the wing of billionaire Jeffery Epstein.

Daily Mail Online, New lives of the girls in Andrew sex claim row: Epstein’s aides who refused to testify are now a pilot and a designer, Sam Greenhill and Daniel Bates, Jan. 7, 2015. Jeffrey Epstein allegedly made huge efforts to ‘look after’ those who kept quiet about his crimes. Both operate from £1.5m addresses in building owned by Epstein’s brother.

Ring of Fire (radio), Epstein Scandal Just Got Crazier — Enter Ken Starr, Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder, Feb. 7, 2015. The mainstream media has largely ignored the Jeffrey Epstein child sex scandal, even though the details of the case keep getting crazier and crazier. Ring of Fire’s co-hosts discuss this. (8:04 min. segment). Famed educator and legal scholar Ken Starr led a forum last week at the National Press Club to inspire faith-based instruction — and then was asked to describe why he had helped billionaire Jeffrey Epstein avoid serious prison time in 2008 on allegations Epstein had molested dozens of underage girls.

Palm Beach Post, Billionaire sex offender drops suit against Scott Rothstein and one of his partners, Jane Musgrave, Aug. 17, 2012. Billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has dropped his lawsuit against convicted Fort Lauderdale Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein and one of the disbarred lawyer’s former associates. Since Rothstein is serving a 50-year sentence for bilking investors out of $1.2 billion, the focus of Epstein’s lawsuit has long been attorney Bradley Edwards.

The Fort Lauderdale lawyer, who worked at Rothstein’s now-defunct firm, became Epstein’s nemesis when he filed civil suits on behalf of five women who claimed Epstein sexually exploited them at his Palm Beach mansion when some were as young as 14. While Epstein ultimately settled the suits, along with roughly two dozen more filed by other women, he claimed Edwards trumped up the allegations to perpetuate Rothstein’s fraud. As part of his scheme, Rothstein would falsely tell potential investors that he had reached large settlements in various lawsuits and they could share in the riches. In the 2009 lawsuit, Epstein said Rothstein falsely claimed he had gotten the billionaire financial manager to agree to settle the women’s lawsuits for as much as $200 million. Despite three years of trying, Epstein never produced any evidence to shore up his allegations, said attorney Jack Scarola, who represents Edwards. Epstein dropped the claims against Edwards on Thursday, a day before Scarola was going to ask a judge to throw out the suit. “He filed these baseless, scurrilous claims for the purpose of trying to extort Mr. Edwards into abandoning the lawsuits on behalf of Mr. Epstein’s young victims,” Scarola said. Attorney Tonja Haddad Coleman, who represents Epstein, didn’t return a phone call for comment.

New York Post, Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein: I’m a sex offender, not a predator, Amber Sutherland, Feb. 25, 2011. Billionaire pervert Jeffrey Epstein is back in New York City — and making wisecracks about his just-ended jail stint for having sex with an underage girl. “I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender,’ ” the financier told the Post yesterday. “It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel,” said Epstein. Epstein’s flippant reasoning aside, a New York judge ruled at a hearing last month that the moneyman is the most dangerous kind of sex offender: a Level 3. That means, according to the state, Epstein is at “high risk” to repeat his offense and poses “a threat to public safety.” But Epstein doesn’t seem bothered by the designation. “The crime that was supposedly committed in Florida is not a crime in New York,” he said. Epstein recently returned to his $50 million East 71st Street mansion and celebrated his release from a Florida jail with his close pal, Britain’s Prince Andrew.

Daily Caller via Stone Zone, The Strange Case of Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton, Roger Stone, Feb. 17, 2015. From 2006 to roughly 2008, hedge fund billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of extensive criminal investigations by both state and federal authorities for child sex crimes. When all was said and done, the authorities had compiled copious witness evidence establishing that Epstein had been serially molesting dozens of underage girls for years, literally as a lifestyle. For over a year the Palm Beach Police scrupulously built a multi-layered case against Epstein centered on his repeated sexual abuse of five minor children, with a lead victim just 14 years old. Many more victims either came forward or were uncovered by Palm Beach detectives.

The Palm Beach investigation substantiated Epstein extensive child sex crimes, leading to what was to be Epstein’s only prosecution. Despite a plethora of evidence establishing that Epstein, along with adults he employed to procure young girls on his behalf, had engaged in serial child molestation if not systematic child sex trafficking, an Epstein-friendly prosecutor in Florida, Barry Krischer, led a grand jury by the nose to indict Epstein on just one single charge: solicitation of prostitution, the sex crime equivalent of jaywalking.

Considerable public outrage in Palm Beach forced prosecutors to up the ante, but barely. The state cut a sweetheart plea deal resulting in Epstein’s conviction on just one count of the solicitation of a minor. As if the minimized charge in the plea deal wasn’t grotesque enough the sentence was even more outrageous. In the immediate wake of the astonishing abdication of duty by Florida prosecutors to pursue criminal justice against a dangerous and prolific child sex predator, Epstein’s varyingly famous and infamous defense attorney, Alan Dershowitz, along with a platoon of high-dollar lawyers including Kenneth Starr of Clintonian Special Prosecutor fame, cut a mystifying deal with federal prosecutors by which everyone in Epstein’s camp, including Dershowitz, was granted immunity from any further prosecution.

Enter Michael Wolff, an Epstein confidant and supposed journalist (Wolff now writes a regular column for British GQ), who recently penned a withering, faux-flummoxed attack in USA Today pooh-poohing the “new age” media and the American legal system, along with Epstein’s persistent “Jane Doe” accusers and their pertinacious Florida attorneys, Paul G. Cassell (a former federal judge) and Bradley J. Edwards. Wolff exudes the preening condescension and huffy indignation that is the hallmark of elite deviant cover-up artists, rushing to excuse one of their own.

Wolff’s somewhat flustered yet strangely navel-gazing editorial conveniently skips right over the part about his child-molesting pal Jeffrey Epstein’s buying himself and his confederates a free-pass from any criminal punishment commensurate with the scope and extent of their heinous child sex crimes. In his op-ed published on January 11, Wolff leaps right to the offensive against those forces, whether human or systemic, that he believes unduly besmirched Epstein’s elite sex cronies Alan Dershowitz and Britain’s “Prince” Andrew.

Prince Andrew, Epstein Case and Videotape/Blackmail Claims

Guardian, Jeffrey Epstein accuser: Video exists of underage sex with powerful men, Jon Swaine, Feb. 7, 2015. The woman who alleges that she was made to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 has told a US court that she believes video footage exists of her having underage sex with powerful associates of Andrew’s friend Jeffrey Epstein. Virginia Roberts also alleged in a new affidavit filed on Friday that she was so badly assaulted by Epstein’s friends that she thought she might die.

IBC Times, Roberts claims FBI have videos of her having sex with high-profile people, Priya Joshi, Feb. 7, 2015. Virginia Roberts said she often feared for her life after being subjected to physical abuse by Epstein’s friends. “Without going into the details of the sexual activities I was forced to endure, there were times when I was physically abused to the point that I remember fearfully thinking that I didn’t know whether I was going to survive.” She adds that when she told Epstein about the abuse, the billionaire responded saying “you get that sometimes.”

In an unprecedented move, demonstrating the highly damaging nature of the accusations, Prince Andrew addressed the allegations during a televised speech at a World Economic Forum event in Davos. Addressing 200 leading figures from the worlds of business and politics, the 54-year-old said: “I just wish to reiterate and to reaffirm the statements which have already been made on my behalf by Buckingham Palace.”

The latest revelations come a week after Epstein hit out at ‘outlandish attacks’ by the ‘gossip media’ over the case. The former financier was jailed for 18 months in 2008 for soliciting paid sex with minors under a secret deal which saw more serious federal charges dropped. Court documents filed in Florida and obtained by the Sunday Times allege that Epstein used his “significant social and political connections” to secure the secret deal. According to the documents, the Duke and former US president Bill Clinton helped Epstein obtain a more favorable deal. Last week, Prince Andrew was pictured as he returned to his royal duties after a second attempt to have him testify about the sex slave allegations failed.

Mirror, Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused, Matthew Drake, Jan. 3, 2015. Prince Andrew’s tycoon pal may have taken compromising photos of him with the underage girl he is alleged to have abused. Details buried in original court papers filed against pervert Jeffrey Epstein, 61, reveal that he recorded the sordid orgies he threw for VIPs at his luxury homes using cameras hidden in the walls of guest bedrooms. The financier, who was jailed for 18 months in 2008 after pleading guilty to solicitation for prostitution, kept a sickening stash of images on a computer seized at his Palm Beach mansion in 2006.

Daily Mail, Prince Andrew’s guards ‘turned a blind eye’: Yard officers watched as Duke partied with young girls, says Epstein’s butler, Stephen Wright and Sam Greenhill, Jan. 11, 2015. Prince Andrew’s bodyguards were accused yesterday of turning a blind eye during his visits to a pedophile friend’s ‘house of sin.’ Protection officers accompanied the royal to Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida mansion where he allegedly partied with naked young women. Juan Alessi, who was Epstein’s butler for 11 years, said: ‘Andrew was with security. He had his two bodyguards from Scotland Yard. I can remember their names. ‘The bodyguards were off duty and they slept in one of the guest bedrooms.’

Daily Mail, The Prince and the paedophile: How Andrew enjoyed sensual massages at sex offender friend’s Florida mansion… and Duke invited him into the heart of the Royal Family, Sam Greenhill, Jan. 3, 2015. Jailed as a paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein found many of his wealthy friends quietly melted away. But there was one long-standing associate on whose loyalty he could rely – Prince Andrew. The pair had been chummy for years, and not even Epstein’s conviction for abusing underage girls appeared to dent their bond. Three years after Epstein’s downfall in 2008, the friends were photographed strolling together in New York’s Central Park. It caused acute embarrassment and cost the prince his job representing Britain as a trade envoy. Even his staunchest defenders at Buckingham Palace ‘had their heads in their hands’, according to an informed source. ‘This is just indefensible.

Ken Starr and the Epstein Case

Update:Washington Post, Baylor rape scandal involves recruiting ‘hostess’ program. These things still exist? Will Hobson, Feb 2, 2017. The NCAA passed a rule to move such groups out of athletic departments in 2004, but recent scandals illustrate their persistence — and perils. The latest lawsuit against Baylor University alleging rampant rape committed by football players with impunity has again cast attention on college “hostess clubs,” groups of women often selected for appearance and personality to greet prized high school football recruits when they visit campus.

More than a decade after the NCAA changed its rules to discourage the once-common groups, now viewed on many campuses as archaic, they continue to feature prominently in sexual-assault and recruiting scandals in college sports. In the lawsuit filed Friday against Baylor, in which plaintiff Elizabeth Doe claims she was gang-raped by two football players in April 2013, Doe says she joined the football hostess program “Baylor Bruins” when she arrived at the Baptist university’s Waco, Tex., campus in the fall of 2012.

Daily Beast, Conservative Scold Ken Starr Got A Billionaire Pedophile Off, M.S. Nestel, Jan. 30, 2015. Many believe Jeffrey Epstein dodged certain doom — he could have remained behind bars for the rest of his life given the number of alleged victims (some say it’s as many as hundreds, while his attorneys suggest it’s barely double-digits). Starr served as a judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. and later became the country’s solicitor general back in the 1980s. But he became a household name in the ’90s when he went after a president. As a self-appointed moral sheriff, Starr almost seemed to trumpet Bill Clinton’s fall from grace — winning him friends on the Christian right and turning him into a witch-hunting pariah with the left.

Faith-based Instruction

Update

Washington Post, Ex-Baylor president Ken Starr could get Trump administration position, Des Bieler, Feb. 10, 2017. Ken Starr, known for his role in the Monica Lewinsky investigation during Bill Clinton’s presidency and, more recently, for leaving high-level positions at Baylor University amid the football program’s ongoing sexual-assault scandal, is reportedly close to joining President Trump’s administration. Starr is among a handful of candidates in the running to be named ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom at the State Department.

“It’s my understanding that it’s his job if he wants it,” a person described as familiar with the vetting process told Foreign Policy.

The job entails monitoring the persecution of religious minorities, and under Trump, it is expected to focus on Christians who are under duress in majority-Muslim countries. Starr (via the Baylor Lariat) has called “education and religious liberty” his “two abiding passions.”

Starr was president of Baylor from 2010 until May 2016, when the school released a findings-of-fact report by Pepper Hamilton, an outside law firm hired to investigate allegations of rape and other abuses committed by football players and not adequately responded to by the athletic department staff and other university officials. In the wake of the report, head football coach Art Briles was fired and Baylor announced that Starr was being demoted to chancellor. He resigned from the school a few days later.

In its report, Pepper Hamilton said it found that “the University’s student conduct processes were wholly inadequate to consistently provide a prompt and equitable response under Title IX, that Baylor failed to consistently support complainants through the provision of interim measures, and that in some cases, the University failed to take action to identify and eliminate a potential hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community.” It also found “examples of actions by University administrators that directly discouraged complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes, or that contributed to or accommodated a hostile environment.”

Christian Post, Purpose of college is not to get a job, is to instill ethical responsibilities: university presidents , Samuel Smith, Feb. 5, 2015. The presidents from three leading American faith-based universities convened Wednesday to discuss the role of faith-based colleges in an increasingly secular society and agreed that faith-based schools, more so than secular schools, stress the importance of living lives filled with morals, ethics and responsibility to others. John Garvey of Catholic University of America and Richard Joel of the the New York-based and Jewish Yeshiva University participated in a Wednesday night discussion on the state of higher education and the calling of faith-based universities, which was moderated and hosted by Baylor University President and Chancellor Ken Starr at the National Press Club.

Baylor University, Religion News Service: Religious college presidents agree on common threats to their schools, Lori Fogleman, Feb. 3, 2015. For the first time, the top officials of Baylor University, Catholic University of America and Yeshiva University will lead a discussion Wednesday (Feb. 4) in Washington, D.C., on the “calling” of faith-based universities. Quoted in the story is Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Starr, who said faith-related schools are charged with helping students learn about “living life purposefully,” which he said goes beyond simply helping students get jobs and be productive citizens. “That’s very good, but is that enough? We want to take the conversation to a broader level of what is in fact the education enterprise all about at its very best, at least from our perspective.”

Baylor University, President and Chancellor Ken Starr. A distinguished academician, lawyer, public servant and sixth-generation Texan, Judge Ken Starr serves as the chief executive officer of Baylor University, holding the titles of President and Chancellor. On June 1, 2010, Judge Starr began his service as the 14th president to serve Baylor University and was named to the position of President and Chancellor on November 11, 2013. In providing the additional title, he is charged with the task of increasing Baylor’s influence in the nation and around the world. Judge Starr also serves on the faculty of Baylor Law School as The Louise L. Morrison Chair of Constitutional Law and teaches a seminar on current Constitutional issues. Judge Starr is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) and currently serves as President of the Southern University Conference. In addition, he serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Baylor College of Medicine and the Board of Trustees for Baylor Scott & White Health.

In September 2010, Judge Starr established his first fundraising priority: The President’s Scholarship Initiative, a three-year challenge to raise $100 million for student scholarships which was completed five months ahead of its goal. He also is leading Baylor into the future under Pro Futuris, a new strategic vision developed with the collective wisdom of the extended Baylor family. Judge Starr has argued 36 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including 25 cases during his service as Solicitor General of the United States from 1989-93. He also served as United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1983 to 1989, as law clerk to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger from 1975 to 1977 and as law clerk to Fifth Circuit Judge David W. Dyer from 1973 to 1974. Starr was appointed to serve as Independent Counsel for five investigations, including Whitewater, from 1994 to 1999.

Alan Dershowitz and the Epstein Case

National Review Online, Alan Dershowitz’s Curious Denials, Ed Whelan, Jan. 7, 2015. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has vehemently denied allegations that he had sexual relations with an under-aged girl who says she had been made a “sex slave” by businessman Jeffrey Epstein. I hope very much that Dershowitz is telling the truth, but there is something about his denials that I find curious. Dershowitz proceeds to mischaracterize Jane Doe #3’s allegations and to specifically deny the mischaracterized allegations. Editor’s Note: Whelan in effect retracted his analysis Jan. 12  with, In Defense of Alan Dershowitz, noting that Dershowitz supplemented the specifics in his original denial with a more general denial.

WPLG (Miami) Channel 10, Alan Dershowitz: ‘Sex slave’ accuser is serial liar, ‘still a prostitute,’ prostitute article, Bob Norman, Jan. 22, 2015 (2:41 min.). Transcript. Well-known attorney and Miami Beach resident Alan Dershowitz emphatically denied allegations made in newly-filed court papers that he had sex six times with an underage girl who at the time was serving as a “sex slave” for wealthy financier — and convicted sex offender — Jeffrey Epstein. “This is a woman who is a serial liar,” Dershowitz told Local 10 News reporter Bob Norman. “She’s lied, lied, lied, lied.”

Bill Clinton and the Epstein Case

Daily Caller via Stone Zone, Will The Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Case Snare Clinton? Roger Stone, Jan. 13, 2015. Former President Bill Clinton visited the hedonistic private island of a billionaire pedophile who police found was engaging girls as young as 12, multiple times. Now a new lawsuit may compel the former president to testify under oath about what he was doing there. The New York Post reported that Hillary is furious that Bill is mired in the scandal. Democrat mega donor and billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was tied by Palm Beach Police to as many as 40 underaged girls and allegedly provided minor girls to Prince Andrew and lawyer Alan Dershowitz, among others.

Now, a lawsuit to overturn a secret and controversial sealed wrist slap plea deal that got Epstein a mere 15 months in a Palm Beach Halfway house, may reveal what Clinton was doing on the island and why Clinton flew on Epstein’s plane 10 times to party abroad, according to FAA Logs. One woman abused on the island by Epstein told the UK Daily Mail Clinton was provided with two women “no older than 17″ when he visited Epstein’s island. A lawsuit to overturn the secret plea and a secondary defamation suit deal filed by a respected former Judge and a Fort Lauderdale lawyer m

Sydney Morning Herald, Bill Clinton drawn into Prince Andrew sex scandal, Nick O’Malley, Jan. 7, 2015. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton has been drawn into the scandal surrounding Virginia Roberts’ allegations she was instructed to have sex with Prince Andrew by American financier Jeffrey Epstein. Court documents show Mr. Clinton was one of many high-profile friends of Epstein to visit his private island and fly on his jet, and that Epstein’s phone directory showed he had 21 phone numbers for Mr. Clinton or his aides.

The documents suggest no wrong-doing on Mr. Clinton’s behalf, but they have set off speculation – particularly on the part of conservative online media – about the potential impact of the scandal on Hillary Clinton’s presumed run for the White House. “Bubba and the Palm Beach Pedophile” screams a headline on the Drudge Report, the conservative blog made famous by its Monica Lewinsky scandal revelations, in a headline today. “The [flight logs] clearly show that Clinton frequently flew with Epstein aboard his plane, then suddenly stopped – raising the suspicion that the friendship abruptly ended, perhaps because of events related to Epstein’s sexual abuse of children,” says a statement lodged by Ms. Roberts’ lawyer in a civil case.

New York Observer, The Jeffrey Epstein Affair Imperils Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Prospects, Ken Silverstein, March 25, 2015. The case of the high-flying (alleged) pedophile reveals a broken American political process. Why is no one in the D.C. political class and media bubble talking about the Jeffrey Epstein affair? Well, it’s not true that they’re not talking about it at all; they’re just not (for the most part) talking about it honestly or asking the right questions. This earlier investigation of Mr. Epstein, led by the FBI, was reportedly closed and the evidence sealed after Mr. Epstein pleaded guilty to two “minor” counts related to charges that he was involved in underage sex. (How crimes involving sex with underage girls can be deemed “minor” is something of a mystery.) Mr. Epstein has reportedly been a significant donor to the Clinton Foundation, before and after he was implicated in sex crimes.And the right questions are:

• Exactly how tight is the friendship between former President and potential future first gentleman Bill Clinton and Mr. Epstein, who owns a private island in Florida and is now accused of having sex with girls as young as 12 and procuring young girls for sex with other friends of his? What was Bill Clinton doing on the island with Mr. Epstein on multiple occasions and why did he fly overseas on Mr. Epstein’s plane at least 10 times?
• What hardball PR and legal tactics will Hillary Clinton’s campaign use to try to make this potential problem—which could potentially derail her planned presidential bid—disappear? Will those tactics work, or is Ms. Clinton’s campaign already dead, even if the exact time of the funeral is not yet known?

Commentary On Other Scandals

New York Times, Prominent Rabbi Arrested on a Charge of Voyeurism, Michael Paulson, Oct. 14, 2015. An Orthodox rabbi who presides over a prominent Washington congregation was arrested on Tuesday and charged with voyeurism. Although the police in the District of Columbia confirmed the arrest of Rabbi Barry Freundel, they declined to provide details or a copy of an arrest report for the misdemeanor charge. Rabbi Freundel is accused of placing a hidden camera in a changing area used by women, as well as some men, to disrobe before they enter a ritual bath called a mikvah, according to a person familiar with the allegation who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case. The congregation’s mikvah is in a building next to the synagogue, Kesher Israel. The congregation’s board of directors said it had notified law enforcement authorities of its concern about Rabbi Freundel’s behavior, and had suspended him without pay.

Washington Post, Lewinsky mistreated by authorities in investigation of Clinton, report says, Rosalind S. Helderman, Oct. 23, 2014. When onetime White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky broke her silence with a major speech this week, one subject brought her nearly to tears. Lewinsky’s voice cracked as she recalled the moment in January 1998 when she was first confronted by FBI agents and lawyers working for Kenneth W. Starr’s Office of Independent Counsel, who threatened her and her mother with criminal prosecution if she did not agree to wear a wire against President Bill Clinton. Lewinsky, now 41, has long felt that she was mistreated by authorities in the 12-hour marathon session, which began as an ambush at the food court at the Pentagon City mall and then moved to a hotel room at the mall’s adjoining Ritz-Carlton hotel.

Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) Columns

WMR, Epstein’s helicopter shared FAA tail number with State Department counterinsurgency aircraft, Wayne Madsen (shown in a file photo) (subscription required), Jan. 28, 2015. Billionaire pederast Jeffrey Epstein, who has been accused of trafficking in at least and perhaps as many as 103 underage females according to documents filed in the U.S. federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida, shared the tail number of his Bell Long Ranger 206L3 helicopter (tail number N474AW) with a U.S. State Department OV-10D Bronco.

WMR, Epstein “sex slave” jet reportedly exported to Venezuela, Jan. 26, 2015. According to Federal Aviation Administration registration records, the Gulfstream II model G1159B jet used by billionaire teenage sex slave ringleader Jeffrey Epstein was “exported” to Venezuela on Dec. 2, 2014.

WMR, Epstein plea deal with feds protected Bill Clinton and the House of Bush, Wayne Madsen, Jan. 23, 2015. WMR obtained the heretofore sealed Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) struck between lawyers for billionaire Florida registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and George W. Bush-era federal prosecutors. Epstein received the NPA after he was charged with soliciting sex from an alleged “prostitute.”

WMR, Epstein underage sex slave scandal threatens to bring down Hillary and Jeb, Jan. 6, 2015. Former President Bill Clinton’s inane accusation that Russian intelligence is behind news reports concerning the involvement of Duke of York, Prince Andrew, to an underage sex slave ring run by convicted pederast and Florida billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a last-ditch attempt by the former president to salvage the flagging 2016 presidential prospects of his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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