The Epstein cover-up

 Ann Coulter:

Question: Is our ruling class trying to make us to think they're a bunch of pederasts? Our media could not be less interested in Jeffrey Epstein's child molestation ring and, with the sole exception of the Palm Beach Police Department, every arm of government has bent over backward to bury the case.

(Who says our media and government can't work together?)

The jury's courageous delivery last week of five "guilty" verdicts against Epstein's pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, was a sort of reverse jury nullification. The U.S. attorney's office -- the prosecution -- did everything it could to get an acquittal, but the jurors defied them.

As for media coverage, did you even know that the FBI found Epstein's cache of sex tapes labeled "(name of underage girl) + (name of VIP)" -- and then lost them?

Immediately after Epstein's arrest at Teterboro Airport in July 2019, the FBI executed a search warrant on his New York mansion. Following a daylong search, agents discovered a hidden safe in the closet of a fifth-floor dressing room, used a saw to break into it, and found an enormous collection of photos of naked girls, and CDs of the girls apparently having sex with influential men.

Then, the agents left -- abandoning the photos and CDs, with Epstein's employees free to wander about the place. As Kelly Maguire, FBI special agent in charge of the search, explained during Maxwell's trial, they only had a warrant to search the house, but not to remove evidence -- evidence at the heart of the entire sex trafficking scheme.

It didn't occur to Maguire to leave a single agent behind to guard the CDs? How about the intern who just gets coffee?

You'll never guess what happened next.

The CDs and photographs disappeared. By the time the FBI returned with a new warrant -- four days later -- to remove the CDs and photos, they were gone. Later, after a few phone calls, Epstein's lawyer, Richard Kahn, "returned" the cache in two suitcases. I had no idea they were important! I was just tidying up!

Were the videos tampered with? Were all of the photos returned? Who knows!
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How could any search warrant for Epstein's residence fail to specify videos? The reason the tapes are kind of important is that it was perfectly clear -- certainly by 2019 -- that Epstein had no legitimate source of income to fund his Caligula lifestyle, and further, that he was farming out underage girls for sex to the rich and powerful -- with hidden cameras running everywhere. It sure looked like his underage sex ring was a blackmail/kompromat operation.
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There is more.

There was also a lack of curiosity about Epstein's source of income.   The US media was even less curious than the FBI about the Epstein story.  The Brit media appeared more interested.  They did have the angle of Prince Andrew's alleged participation in what Epstein had to offer.

This looks like another story where the FBI failed to do its job.