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Epstein Early Exit Epidemic?
I heard a rumor that Jeffrey Epstein’s girl Friday, Ghislaine Maxwell had been found dead in her federal prison cell. It turns out that the rumor was not true, yet. No, as @stad reports, it was just the man accused by French authorities of being the front-end procurer, a famous model agent, who allegedly hung himself in his prison cell. How convenient. Too cynical? Not in the totality of the circumstances.
Consider that the U.S. DOJ and FBI have long been rotten at their core, fraudulently prosecuting Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), with the complicity of Judge Emmett Sullivan, in order to swing his election and help Obama the super-majority he needed to pass Obamacare. Consider that Sullivan ordered, and got, an investigation of the prosecution that produced not one criminal conviction or even one lawyer losing their career or being disbarred. Indeed, the only one to lose their career was the inconvenient FBI whistleblower. Notice the lack of effective budgetary or structural action against the DOJ and FBI by Mitch McConnell and Lyin’ Paul Ryan, with his key lieutenant Kevin McCarthy. Remember that this real insurrection happened on George W. Bush’s watch. So much for defending the First Branch against predation by the second and third branches of government, a real insurrection against our constitutional republic by unaccountable bureaucrats.
Consider the real insurrection against the legitimate winner of the 2016 presidential election, the real Big Lie of Russiagate. Consider that not one of these white-collar criminals has been convicted or even effectively had their legal careers ended. The corrupt D.C. bar even reinstated Keven Clinesmith, the one FBI employee convicted so far.
Clinesmith was sentenced to 12 months probation last January. But the D.C. Bar did not seek his disbarment, as is customary after lawyers are convicted of serious crimes involving the administration of justice. In this case, it did not even initiate disciplinary proceedings against him until February of this year — five months after he pleaded guilty and four days after RealClearInvestigations first reported he had not been disciplined. After the negative publicity, the bar temporarily suspended Clinesmith pending a review and hearing. Then in September, the court that oversees the bar and imposes sanctions agreed with its recommendation to let Clinesmith off suspension with time served; the bar, in turn, restored his status to “active member” in “good standing.”
Consider that the DOJ first tried to bury Epstein’s monstrous enterprise under an outrageously lenient plea deal in Florida. Then consider his very convenient death in a federal prison, under Attorney General Barr’s DOJ, with a toothless investigation tagging two cell-block level Bureau of Prison employees as the patsies. With Epstein’s death, the focus turned to his girl Friday, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is now convicted and reportedly under suicide watch in federal prison. However, with her right to appeal not exhausted, we still do not have complete access to the reputed lists of clients from the world of finance, entertainment, and politics, a subset within Epstein’s “little black book.”
Since Epstein’s jet flight logs and address book are so extensive, not limited to travel involving minors, we apparently need access to the unredacted address book and to testimony from Maxwell and others involved in sex trafficking. There have been rumors of video, but not one has publicly surfaced, so far. Accordingly, French authorities were digging into the front end of recruiting, targeting a famous modeling agent.
Jean-Luc Brunel was found hung by his bedsheets in his prison cell. La Santé Prison is no ordinary institution, holding some of the world’s most infamous prisoners, including Carlos the Jackal. So, we might presume a level of competence by the French Ministry of Justice, just as we may assign a level of competence to the U.S. Department of Justice. Brunel’s death comes within a week of Prince Andrew paying a hush-money settlement to one of the alleged Epstein victims.
Jean-Luc Brunel, 74, was found hanged by his bedsheets in his cell around 1:30 a.m. local time at La Sante prison, the Paris prosecutor’s office told CNN.
Brunel, who ran Karin Models in Paris, and later formed MC2 Model Management with Epstein, was awaiting trial on charges of sexual assault and rape. He was also being investigated for trafficking minors, including girls as young as 12 years old, according to French news reports.
Brunel was credible with young girls because of his history of launching millionaire supermodels, including “Christy Turlington, Monica Belluci and Angie Everhart.” So, the dots, the points in the pimping pipeline, would be Brunel to Maxwell to Epstein. Two out of three are now dead under the same circumstances. How very convenient.
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I was surprised to hear about Jean-Luc Brunel’s suicide, but not as much as he was.
Did anyone check the knot? Just wondering if it looked familiar /cough/ Epstein /cough/.
Maxwell would be wise to leave a “in case I commit suicide” list of names to be released with her lawyer. Suicide insurance.
Suicide insurance is a good idea, but would only have led to more suicides of anyone who might have had or knew about such a list. Let’s see if the suicide rate in France jumps in the near future.
I’m surprised the high-priced legal talent representing Ghislaine has not raised the Roman Polanski defense: “I didn’t know she was sixteen–she looked thirteen, I swear.”
Or the Appalachian Defense gambit: “Fourteen ain’t too old if’n she’s taken care of herself.”
Up until 2019, that was Louisiana Stat Law.