Epstein threatened to burn woman’s house down if she told anyone about him, the documents claim

The release of tens of thousands of files from probes into deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has confirmed that a former employee warned the FBI in 1996 that he was seeking out child pornography - a decade before the agency investigated the financier.

“I’ve waited 30 years,” Maria Farmer told The New York Times after the Justice Department released files Friday. Among the documents was Farmer’s report to the bureau, which is thought to be the first time someone reported Epstein to law enforcement.

Farmer, who accused Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell of sexually assaulting her in a 2019 lawsuit, has said she faced threats and claims that she was inventing her story, for years.

“I can’t believe it,” Farmer added. “They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

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    Rich people are allowed to rape girls in America. Law enforcement is an enabler, not an obstacle. Nobody is even talking about how to change that.

    For every 1,000 sexual assaults, only 25 people will be incarcerated. America doesn’t give a tiny shit about people getting raped. When it happens to girls and women, we ignore it. When it happens to boys and men, it’s a joke. That’s still going to be true if Trump and everybody you hate is rotting in prison.

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    The document reveals that Farmer, an artist, warned in 1996 that Epstein stole photos she had taken of her 12- and 16-year-old sisters, and alleges he may have sold the pictures to buyers.

    Jfc!

    So what was the fate of the complaint? Just filed and dismissed? It says the FBI has never publicly acknowledged it, but what did the file actually say?

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    I hope the FBI does something right yet for the last twenty odd years I’m just reading about major mishaps and straight out evil shit.

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      Doesn’t that go back a lot further, like to inception?

      When I think of FBI I think of bombing a residential neighborhood & their general unaccountably.

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    “They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

    Oh, if only that were true. These shameless assholes will sell you piss and tell you it’s Champagne.

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      They can’t ≠ not they won’t, but now these documents are out there she has a leg to stand on whenever some does call her a liar again. But I agree, the people that called her a liar are shameless assholes that will sell you piss and tell you it’s Champagne.

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      Piss comes for the Piss region of Texas, otherwise it’s just sparkling urine…

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    This story really indicates how old and pervasive the corruption was. It’s repellant and unconscionable.

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        Donald Trump might end up being tried for war crimes if he continues like he does. I feel like Ghislaine deserves hearing Trump’s incessant whining until she dies, but i also feel like that outcome would be to nice for Trump if you consider the scope of the results from his actions compared to hers (I don’t want to diminish the hell these women went through, but they are only a few hundred or a thousand at most).

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    When you’re a psychopath like Epstein, your line of reasoning is basically “Threatening to burn her house down would be an effective way to keep her quiet”. You don’t even begin to consider things like ethics or morality, you just consider all the ways that would be effective silencing techniques, like threats of bodily harm or property destruction