How Epstein groomed America's corrupt elite

[karynnj]

9. I suspect that people learned gradually about what he was doing.

Obviously excluding anyone who actively participated or who knew enough and didn't speak up, what was known gradually changed from 2006, when he was being investigated, 2008 when he went to prison for only a small part of what he was quilty of, through increasingly public accounts until he was indicted in 2019.

For many of the elite, their personal contact might have been attending dinner with other interesting people or getting funding for a project they were working on or accepting campaign contributions.

Now, many politicians followed their policy of donating contributions from disgraced individuals probably in 2006 but at least by 2008.

There are others that simply stopped engaging with him at some point in time. I am surprised many continued to see him when he got out of prison. I understand the concept of "serving his time" and I know the plea bargain was not for trafficking, but it included having sex with a 17 year old when he was decades older. Not to mention, at least this should have troubled them if they saw him surrounded by young girls.

I am not surprised there were no "breakup" letters. Consider one of the best known, Bill Clinton, what was clear from him is he stopped things after Epstein was charged. I bet there were others like him.