US financier Jeffrey Epstein charged for sex trafficking underage girls
The influential billionaire, who has hobnobbed with Trump, Clinton and Prince Andrew, ‘lured girls as young as 14 for sex acts’
08 July 2019 - 17:48
New York — US financier Jeffrey Epstein was charged with sex trafficking on Monday, as prosecutors accused him of luring dozens of girls as young as 14 to his luxury homes in New York and Florida and paying them for sex acts.
An indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan said Epstein, 66, “intentionally sought out minors and knew that many of his victims were in fact under the age of 18, including because, in some instances, minor victims expressly told him their age”...
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