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| Jeffrey Epstein's Fake Foreign Passport Was Used in Saudi Arabia and Other Countries |
| 2019-07-18 |
| [Daily Beast] Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers downplayed his possession of a foreign passport under a fake name by suggesting he’d never used it‐but prosecutors said Wednesday that’s not the case. In a letter to the federal judge who will decide if the financier stays in jail until trial, the U.S. attorney’s office said that the travel document "contains numerous ingress and egress stamps, including stamps that reflect use of the passport to enter France, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Saudi Arabia in the 1980s." Epstein’s attorneys then shot back that there was an innocent explanation for the passport: He acquired it as "personal protection," to hide his Jewish identity from hijackers, kidnappers, or terrorists during travel in the Middle East. "The government offers nothing to suggest‐and certainly no evidence‐that Epstein ever used it," the defense wrote to the judge‐a day before the prosecutors did just that. The passport‐which was Austrian but listed a Saudi Arabia address‐was found in a locked safe in Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, and prosecutors cited it in court earlier this week as evidence that the accused sex trafficker is a flight risk. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 @Lex Les Wexner |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-07-18 17:11 |
| #12 Pan, that's just in ONE safe. He has dozens of them. |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-07-18 15:13 |
| #11 I guess the obvious thing to do is to see where he went under the fake passport, because that is what he was trying to hide. |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-07-18 13:48 |
| #10 $70K? And some diamonds? For a supposed billionaire that is loose change. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-07-18 13:21 |
| #9 With a fleet of private jets and a private airstrip, you should probably add drug smuggler to that list as well as human trafficking. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-07-18 13:09 |
| #8 48 loose stone diamonds in one safe "ranging from 1 to 2.38 carats..." $70,000 in cash in that safe... Obviously this guy is laundering someone's money. The pedophilia isn't the half of it. He's a blackmailer and a money launderer. Who is behind him? |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-07-18 12:35 |
| #7 As the Russians have demonstrated, private jets are also handy in moving contraband and gold to private islands for distribution by surface ships. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-07-18 12:02 |
| #6 Jeffrey Epstein DID use his fake passport for travel to Spain, UK and more reveal lawyers after pedophile's defense team said there was no proof of use |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-07-18 11:58 |
| #5 He didn't use the frequently use passport? As he needed it? I think his lawyer is just not trying. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-07-18 11:17 |
| #4 Oh ok ... I was trying to make sense of his lawyers' BS |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-07-18 11:14 |
| #3 Traveling under a different name and foreign passport keeps your real name off the lists and your US passport clean of foreign travel. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-07-18 10:59 |
| #2 "Austrian with a Saudi address" is supposed to throw people off your trail? Huh? |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-07-18 10:48 |
| #1 Having learned the skills of the trade, it is likely somewhere along the line he transitioned from traditional espionage to the more lucrative field of international prostitution. A natural progression. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-07-18 09:37 |