Current Events > NYPD let Jeffrey Epstein skip judge-ordered check-ins

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https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/nypd-let-convicted-pedophile-jeffrey-epstein-skip-judge-ordered-check-ins/

Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein never once checked in with city cops in the eight-plus years since a Manhattan judge ordered him to do so every 90 days and the NYPD says its fine with that.

After being labeled a worst-of-the-worst, Level 3 sex offender in 2011, Epstein should have reported in person to verify his address 34 times before he was arrested Saturday on federal child sex-trafficking charges.

Violating requirements of the states 1996 Sex Offender Registration Act including checking in with law enforcement is a felony punishable by up to four years in prison for a first offense.

Subsequent violations carry a sentence of up to seven years each.

But the NYPD hasnt required the multimillionaire financier who owns a $77 million Upper East Side townhouse to check in since he registered as a sex offender in New York over the controversial 2008 plea bargain he struck in Florida amid allegations he sexually abused scores of underage girls in his Palm Beach mansion.

Several current and former high-ranking NYPD officials were shocked to learn from The Post that the department had given Epstein a pass on his periodic check-ins, with one saying, It makes no sense.

The NYPD cant modify a court order, a source said. If the judge says he has to report here, he has to report here.

Another source said Epstein was supposed to go to SOMU, an acronym for the NYPDs Sex Offender Monitoring Unit, located in the Manhattan criminal courthouse at 100 Centre St.

If he didnt, then hes in violation and they could have arrested him, the source said.

The NYPD maintains that Epstein, 66, wasnt required to check in with New York cops because he claims his primary residence is a private island, Little St. John, in the US Virgin Islands.

But State Supreme Court Justice Ruth Pickholz considered and rejected that very argument by defense lawyer Sandra Musumeci during the Jan. 18, 2011, hearing.

Musumeci insisted that Epstein wasnt a resident of New York and that his seven-story townhouse at 9 East 71st St. was a vacation home at which he had no plans to ever stay longer than a period 10 days.

Pickholz insisted that Epstein would have to abide by the mandatory reporting requirements for Level 3 offenders.

I am sorry he may have to come here every 90 days, she said, according to an official transcript. He can give up his New York home if he does not want to come every 90 days.

That was the same hearing where, in a highly controversial move, the Manhattan District Attorneys Office tried to argue on Epsteins behalf that he should be deemed a low-risk Level 1 offender, which would have exempted him from the reporting requirements.
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In March, an NYPD spokeswoman told the Washington Post that Epstein never checked in following Pickholzs ruling. Asked repeatedly about that admission this week, the NYPD declined comment.

Asked about her ruling, state court spokesman Lucian Chalfen said that Pickholz stands by what was said in court, on the record, at the hearing and has had no further role in any type of enforcement. Thats not the courts role.

In addition to verifying a sex offenders address, the 90-day check-ins allow cops to take a new photograph if the offenders appearance has changed, so it can be updated online.

The NYPD cop assigned to monitor Epstein has repeatedly complained to Vances Sex Crimes Unit that Epstein wasnt in compliance, according to a source familiar with the matter.

But prosecutors told the cop to merely send Epstein a letter, reminding him of his reporting requirement.

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The law doesn't apply to rich people

clearaflagrantj posted...

The law doesn't apply to rich people

I wish it affected them 10 times worse. Then it would be even with all the money they spent.
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LightningAce11 posted...

clearaflagrantj posted...

The law doesn't apply to rich people

I wish it affected them 10 times worse. Then it would be even with all the money they spent.

I don't disagree. They tend to laugh at fines and such because it's just a drop in the lake for them.
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Shit like this is why I'm not against vigilantism. The system is fucked.

inb4 I'm called a monster or some crap.
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Eat the rich
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why is the nypd so scummy?
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It never ceases to amaze me how deep the corruption goes. Reminder that we are nothing but livestock.
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