(This was some months before Gaetz’s connection to the Greenberg sex trafficking investigation was first reported.) “They know he paid me to pay the girls and that he and I both had sex with the girl who was underage,” Greenberg wrote Stone. Just before Trump left office, Greenberg pressed Trump associate Roger Stone for a preemptive pardon. In 2019, according to the Human Trafficking Institute, 103 people faced sex trafficking charges for soliciting sex-about 10 percent of all federal trafficking defendants.īoth Greenberg and Epstein appear to have explicitly cultivated relationships with powerful people both to enrich themselves and as cover. Since then, the Department of Justice has charged many more men who were alleged to have solicited commercial sex with the crime of sex trafficking. There are unexpected burdens as well as benefits.” It was a “burden”that meets the federal definition of sex trafficking. “Gulliver’s playfulness had unintended consequences,” Epstein told The New York Times a few months before his brief incarceration, likening himself to the narrator of Jonathan Swift’s novel, all in the course of being interviewed on his own private island. When Gates was being entertained by Epstein at the financier’s Manhattan townhouse, several years had passed since a sex trafficking investigation resulted in Epstein’s very publicly pleading guilty to charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution.
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