"At his death, he left behind a network of trafficking and sexual abuse with hundreds of victims, both minors and adults (up to 1,200, according to some estimates), as well as a dense web of ties to powerful figures and friendships that, in many cases, remained intact even after his first conviction in 2008 for two state crimes, which included his registration in a public sex offender registry."
"After the release of two batches of Epstein documents sparked controversy in the United States over the number of usual suspects involved (in addition to Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Noam Chomsky, Steve Bannon, Bill Gates, and Woody Allen, among others) and anger among the victims over the handling of the redacted sections (for failing to protect the identity of some victims and being excessively protective of the alleged perpetrators), the latest batch arrived three weeks ago."
Decades passed between the first New York complaint against Jeffrey Epstein and subsequent global scandal. Authorities in Florida prosecuted Epstein two decades ago after dozens of minors reported sexual abuse in his Palm Beach mansion. Epstein was awaiting trial in New York in 2019 when he died in a cell in a death the coroner ruled a suicide. He left behind hundreds to over a thousand victims and maintained ties to influential people despite a 2008 conviction and sex offender registration. The U.S. Department of Justice is publishing a vast trove of documents after congressional legislation compelled release, and batches of those documents have provoked controversy over implicated figures and redactions.
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