August 22, 2025 • 14 mins
The original charges brought against Jeffrey Epstein in Florida in 2007 were laughably weak when weighed against the sheer scope of his crimes. Despite overwhelming evidence that he had trafficked and abused dozens of underage girls, he was allowed to plead guilty only to two state-level prostitution charges—one of them grotesquely labeling a minor as a "prostitute." This framing alone was an insult to his victims and a textbook example of the justice system bending over backwards to protect power. Rather than a serious prosecution, it was a carefully choreographed wrist slap designed to shield Epstein and the wealthy men around him from real scrutiny.
The law itself compounded the travesty. Florida statutes at the time allowed prosecutors to downgrade Epstein’s conduct into charges that not only failed to reflect the gravity of child sexual abuse but actively mischaracterized it. By calling minors "prostitutes," the law criminalized victims while sanitizing the predator’s behavior. This legal loophole—exploited with the DOJ’s blessing through the infamous non-prosecution agreement—made a mockery of justice. It revealed a system that, when confronted with wealth and influence, preferred euphemism and minimization over accountability. What should have been a landmark prosecution of a serial child sex trafficker instead became one of the most grotesque miscarriages of justice in modern American legal history.
To contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
source:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1209-pitts-prostitute-20181205-story.html
The law itself compounded the travesty. Florida statutes at the time allowed prosecutors to downgrade Epstein’s conduct into charges that not only failed to reflect the gravity of child sexual abuse but actively mischaracterized it. By calling minors "prostitutes," the law criminalized victims while sanitizing the predator’s behavior. This legal loophole—exploited with the DOJ’s blessing through the infamous non-prosecution agreement—made a mockery of justice. It revealed a system that, when confronted with wealth and influence, preferred euphemism and minimization over accountability. What should have been a landmark prosecution of a serial child sex trafficker instead became one of the most grotesque miscarriages of justice in modern American legal history.
To contact me:
bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
source:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1209-pitts-prostitute-20181205-story.html
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
When Jeffrey Epstein was first arrested in Florida, they hit
him with a solicitation of a minor for prostitution, as
if a miner can really be a prostitute in the
first place. If you are not able to consent, how
(00:21):
are you a prostitute? That's the question I have. And now,
don't get it twisted. If you want to be a prostitute,
and there are people out there who do, then that
is their business. I have no problem with them. My
problem is this, how can the law look at a
child who has been picked up by a fifty something
year old man and not call that what it is?
(00:45):
Child abuse, molestation, pedophilia In some instances, that's what it is,
not solicitation of a child. It's ridiculous. There should be
no such thing as child prostitutes. And the author from
this article over here at the Baltimore Sun, Leonard Pitts Junior,
(01:06):
Well he happens to agree. So let's jump into this
look back episode and let's see what he has to say.
This article was originally published December ninth of two thousand
and eighteen. No. One even knows how many girls there were.
Federal prosecutors identified thirty six in Perversion of Justice, a
(01:29):
stunning piece of investigative work by Julie K. Brown that
was published last month. The Miami Herald reported that it
has found eighty, but accounts given by the girls themselves
suggests there may be hundreds, hundreds. And that's really the
colhart truth of it. The prosecutor said, thirty six. Julie K.
(01:51):
Brown came up with a few more, But we all
know the truth, and we all know that there was
a lot more than that. And where are all of
these girls, the ones that don't have a voice, the
ones that have never been able to come forward and
seek restitution or justice. Where did they all go? Did
they just disappear? We're talking underage girls, some as young
(02:15):
as thirteen, troubled children, children living in foster care, children
of addicts and abusers, children of poverty and molestation, children
who were homeless runaways, children who in the early two
thousands were lured by promises of easy money to put
the Palm Beach estate of Jeffrey Epstein. And that's exactly
what we are talking about children. Yet somehow the law
(02:40):
had it set up where Epstein was able to get
off on solicitation of a minor. You want to talk
about loopholes, You want to talk about technicalities. Who the
hell designed that law and what was the purpose behind it.
A multi millionaire money manager whose friends included Bill Clinton
(03:02):
and Donald Trump. There, they say they would massage him
or watch him masturbate, perform oral sex, or have intercourse.
Mister Epstein, they say, went through as many girls as
three a day. Then those girls were sent to recruit others.
And we all know the story by now. Epstein would
bring these girls in and they would become part of
(03:26):
his web, and then they would be sent out with
the task of bringing in their friends. So he's sending
out sixteen year old girls, fifteen year old girls to
bring others sixteen and fifteen year old girls into the
spider web. It is one of the most atrocious, gross
things that I have ever ever read about, or studied
(03:50):
or researched. This is beyond the pale, folks. I mean,
you're going after the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable.
Not only are they children, but they are children. Has
just explained that come from broken homes, people who come
from places where they might not have people there to
tell them this is the wrong way to do things.
(04:10):
And those were the people that Epstein looked for. And
as retired pom Beach Police Chief Michael Ryder, who supervised
vis the two thousand and five police investigation into this crime,
told the Herald, this was not a he said, she
said situation. This was fifty something she's and one he
(04:30):
and the she's all basically told the same story. See,
that's where it becomes way more locked in, right when
you have multiple people coming out and telling the same story.
And these are people who don't know each other. Obviously
all of these girls, they didn't know each other. So
they come out and they tell all of the same
(04:52):
story basically, you know, little details are different, but the
overall story is the same. So when you're a place
police officer or an investigator or a researcher and everybody
basically is on the same page, you have to take
that seriously, right, You have to take that into account
and really pursue that. Moreover, the stories were backed up
(05:19):
by a trove of physical evidence. Mister Epstein could have
been put away for life. There was so much there
to put this dude away and going all the way
back to when Maria Farmer added him, and even before that,
I'm sure there were signs. A guy like this doesn't
just wake up one day and say, all right, that's it.
(05:39):
I'm going to become the most prolific molester in the
history of prolific molesters. That's not how this works, but
that's certainly what he was. So there were signs, There
were tells going way back, and the people that missed them, well,
I'm guessing a lot of them did that willingly. Instead
(06:01):
Miami federal Prosecutor Alexander Acosta and his boss is Mukasey,
and otherwise that's not part of the article I added
that offered the rich man a deal. And again we've
discussed this at length now. Acosta is a spineless coward,
a punk bitch who should have stepped up to the
plate and said, I don't care if I lose my
job over this. We're not doing it this way. We're
(06:23):
prosecuting this guy, and if you've got a problem speaking
about his bosses, I'm going to the Inspector General and
we'll see what's what. But people are way too scared
to lose their jobs, right. People are way too scared
to lose the prestige of their gig. There's always another
job out there. It's your integrity that once it's lost,
it's hard to get back. He would plead guilty to
(06:49):
just two charges of prostitution involving one fourteen year old girl.
An ongoing FBI investigation would be shut down. He would
serve thirteen months. Let that simmer for a minute, folks, okay,
let that simmer with you. One girl prostitution, prostitution and
she was fourteen? How can the courts justify this? How
(07:14):
can the appeals Court, the Supreme Court even not look
at this and be over the moon fired up? I
guess what it comes down to is they just don't care,
do they. You read all you read all this in
escalating fury, but you literally don't know who or what
(07:34):
to be angriest about. Well we do now, right, We
know who to be angry at. We know who was
involved in all of this. Now the question becomes, when
are we going to see these people held accountable. Epstein
and Maxwell didn't do this alone. And while it's nice
that Epstein's gone and Maxwell's in prison, and Brunell, well
(07:55):
we know about him as well, but let's get some
justice here. Can some of the these other co conspirators
get locked up? Can some of the people that were
using his services at least be put on blast. There's
mister Epstein, of course, seen in his mugshots smirking at
the camera. Then there's Sarah kell and Vickers, who allegedly
(08:17):
scheduled his massages. There's British socialite co conspirator general all
around scumbag Glenn Maxwell, who allegedly organized sex parties and
taught girls to perform to mister Epstein's satisfaction. Well, we
all know about the dance routines and the rest of it.
And remember this is an article from twenty nineteen, So
(08:37):
this is an old article, right, folks, an article before
we you know, knew what we know now. So when
we go back and we use hindsight to take a
look at this stuff, it's crazy to think how spot
on we have been. From Jump Street. There's a culture that,
when faced with acts of exploitation and rap against women
(09:00):
and girls, ponders how to make the problem go away
as to not inconvenience the men. Yeah. Look, it's the
Colhart truth of it, and our society has been like
that for a very long time as a man. It's
kind of embarrassing too. Dudes out here thinking they could
put their hands on people that don't want their hands
on them, think that a girl is there for you
(09:23):
to assault because she's wearing a short dress or whatever
it is. I just don't understand that mindset, that psyche.
But there's a lot of people out there who think
like that, and it's fucking gross, honestly. Then there's mister Acosta,
who work with mister Epstein's attorneys to shield this from
(09:43):
the press, who failed to notify survivors about the deal,
though federal law required him to, who called a fourteen
year old victim a child prostitute. Again, Alex Acosta is
such a gross bastard and old Trumpety Trump Trump Trumper.
He's embarrassing as well. How are you going to bring
this dude on board? You don't do your due diligence.
(10:05):
Oh that's right. Why do you care? Epstein was your
homie at one point too, So what's the big deal?
As human rights attorney Yasmin Vaffa told The Herald, there
is no such thing as a child prostitute under federal law.
It's called child sex trafficking. That's what it is. Can
we call it what it is? It's that too difficult?
(10:26):
Can we just apply the law as it stated? Please?
And that thirteen month sentence. Mister Epstein served it in
a private wing of the local jail. Those sex offenders
aren't allowed work release. He was permitted to spend twelve
hours a day, six days a week at his office
where we know now there's allegations that he was still
(10:47):
abusing people while a deputy was appointed to him. What
were those deputies up to? Finally saves some fury for
a system and society that obviously regards some of us
as throwaway people to be given throwaway justice, the eloquent
lies of the blindfolded lady with the scales notwithstanding, as
(11:09):
Courtney Wilde, who met mister Epstein when she was fourteen
and still wearing braces, told the Herald, he went after
girls who he thought no one would listen to. And
he was right. And another reason why I'm so pissed
off about all of this, going after poor people, vulnerable people.
Fuck my people, most of your people as well. I
know I grew up in the inner city. This could
(11:30):
have been countless numbers of my friends female friends growing up.
I cannot tell you the poverty and how broke people were.
Someone shows up offering two hundred three hundred dollars for
a massage. I can guarantee that a lot of the
girls that I grew up in with in my neighborhood
would have jumped at the opportunity for the record. Ms
(11:55):
Vickers went on to marry a NASCAR driver. Miss Maximell
runs an environmental nonprofit. Nah, she's in jail. Mister Acosta
is our secretary of labor. Not anymore. Mister Epstein, who
faces a civil suit on December fourth, lives on a
private island and travels by private jet. Not anymore, He's
dead meantime. Courtney Wilde grew up to work as a
(12:16):
stripper and became addicted to drugs. In twenty sixteen, she
was arrested for trafficking methanphetamine. Now you want to talk
about no justice in the world, imagine being arrested for
trafficking meth after your accuser, Epstein and Maxwell and the
rest of them get off scot free for so long.
I can't even imagine how Courtney feels. She was sentenced
(12:44):
to three years. So when I talk about how there
is no equity in the law, this is what I mean, folks,
poor people, people who are middle class, working, middle class.
No chance, man, we don't have a chance. We're throwaway.
We don't mean shit to society. And the real reality
of it is this, if you don't have economic power,
(13:05):
then you don't have power. And that's why they want
all of the wealth, all of the power, in the
hands of the very few, while the rest of us
struggle and battle for every single scrap we have on
our table. And frankly, folks, your boy is fucking sick
of it. And all of these people who were hanging
(13:28):
out with Epstein, enabling Epstein and helping all of this
stuff to happen, well, they're the first people on my list.
And then systematically we'll go from there. We'll dispose all
of these scumbags for their scumbaggery because enough is enough.
We're not disposable, we're not throwaway people. And guess what,
(13:49):
We're not going to be silenced any longer. If you'd
like to contact me, you can do that at Bobby
Kapuchi at Protonmeil dot com. That's bo bbu u y
c A p U c c I at ProtonMail dot com.
You can also find me on Twitter at b O
b b y underscore c A p U c c I.
(14:11):
The link that we discussed is in the description box.
What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles.
When Jeffrey Epstein was first arrested in Florida, they hit
him with a solicitation of a minor for prostitution, as
if a miner can really be a prostitute in the
first place. If you are not able to consent, how
(00:21):
are you a prostitute? That's the question I have. And now,
don't get it twisted. If you want to be a prostitute,
and there are people out there who do, then that
is their business. I have no problem with them. My
problem is this, how can the law look at a
child who has been picked up by a fifty something
year old man and not call that what it is?
(00:45):
Child abuse, molestation, pedophilia In some instances, that's what it is,
not solicitation of a child. It's ridiculous. There should be
no such thing as child prostitutes. And the author from
this article over here at the Baltimore Sun, Leonard Pitts Junior,
(01:06):
Well he happens to agree. So let's jump into this
look back episode and let's see what he has to say.
This article was originally published December ninth of two thousand
and eighteen. No. One even knows how many girls there were.
Federal prosecutors identified thirty six in Perversion of Justice, a
(01:29):
stunning piece of investigative work by Julie K. Brown that
was published last month. The Miami Herald reported that it
has found eighty, but accounts given by the girls themselves
suggests there may be hundreds, hundreds. And that's really the
colhart truth of it. The prosecutor said, thirty six. Julie K.
(01:51):
Brown came up with a few more, But we all
know the truth, and we all know that there was
a lot more than that. And where are all of
these girls, the ones that don't have a voice, the
ones that have never been able to come forward and
seek restitution or justice. Where did they all go? Did
they just disappear? We're talking underage girls, some as young
(02:15):
as thirteen, troubled children, children living in foster care, children
of addicts and abusers, children of poverty and molestation, children
who were homeless runaways, children who in the early two
thousands were lured by promises of easy money to put
the Palm Beach estate of Jeffrey Epstein. And that's exactly
what we are talking about children. Yet somehow the law
(02:40):
had it set up where Epstein was able to get
off on solicitation of a minor. You want to talk
about loopholes, You want to talk about technicalities. Who the
hell designed that law and what was the purpose behind it.
A multi millionaire money manager whose friends included Bill Clinton
(03:02):
and Donald Trump. There, they say they would massage him
or watch him masturbate, perform oral sex, or have intercourse.
Mister Epstein, they say, went through as many girls as
three a day. Then those girls were sent to recruit others.
And we all know the story by now. Epstein would
bring these girls in and they would become part of
(03:26):
his web, and then they would be sent out with
the task of bringing in their friends. So he's sending
out sixteen year old girls, fifteen year old girls to
bring others sixteen and fifteen year old girls into the
spider web. It is one of the most atrocious, gross
things that I have ever ever read about, or studied
(03:50):
or researched. This is beyond the pale, folks. I mean,
you're going after the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable.
Not only are they children, but they are children. Has
just explained that come from broken homes, people who come
from places where they might not have people there to
tell them this is the wrong way to do things.
(04:10):
And those were the people that Epstein looked for. And
as retired pom Beach Police Chief Michael Ryder, who supervised
vis the two thousand and five police investigation into this crime,
told the Herald, this was not a he said, she
said situation. This was fifty something she's and one he
(04:30):
and the she's all basically told the same story. See,
that's where it becomes way more locked in, right when
you have multiple people coming out and telling the same story.
And these are people who don't know each other. Obviously
all of these girls, they didn't know each other. So
they come out and they tell all of the same
(04:52):
story basically, you know, little details are different, but the
overall story is the same. So when you're a place
police officer or an investigator or a researcher and everybody
basically is on the same page, you have to take
that seriously, right, You have to take that into account
and really pursue that. Moreover, the stories were backed up
(05:19):
by a trove of physical evidence. Mister Epstein could have
been put away for life. There was so much there
to put this dude away and going all the way
back to when Maria Farmer added him, and even before that,
I'm sure there were signs. A guy like this doesn't
just wake up one day and say, all right, that's it.
(05:39):
I'm going to become the most prolific molester in the
history of prolific molesters. That's not how this works, but
that's certainly what he was. So there were signs, There
were tells going way back, and the people that missed them, well,
I'm guessing a lot of them did that willingly. Instead
(06:01):
Miami federal Prosecutor Alexander Acosta and his boss is Mukasey,
and otherwise that's not part of the article I added
that offered the rich man a deal. And again we've
discussed this at length now. Acosta is a spineless coward,
a punk bitch who should have stepped up to the
plate and said, I don't care if I lose my
job over this. We're not doing it this way. We're
(06:23):
prosecuting this guy, and if you've got a problem speaking
about his bosses, I'm going to the Inspector General and
we'll see what's what. But people are way too scared
to lose their jobs, right. People are way too scared
to lose the prestige of their gig. There's always another
job out there. It's your integrity that once it's lost,
it's hard to get back. He would plead guilty to
(06:49):
just two charges of prostitution involving one fourteen year old girl.
An ongoing FBI investigation would be shut down. He would
serve thirteen months. Let that simmer for a minute, folks, okay,
let that simmer with you. One girl prostitution, prostitution and
she was fourteen? How can the courts justify this? How
(07:14):
can the appeals Court, the Supreme Court even not look
at this and be over the moon fired up? I
guess what it comes down to is they just don't care,
do they. You read all you read all this in
escalating fury, but you literally don't know who or what
(07:34):
to be angriest about. Well we do now, right, We
know who to be angry at. We know who was
involved in all of this. Now the question becomes, when
are we going to see these people held accountable. Epstein
and Maxwell didn't do this alone. And while it's nice
that Epstein's gone and Maxwell's in prison, and Brunell, well
(07:55):
we know about him as well, but let's get some
justice here. Can some of the these other co conspirators
get locked up? Can some of the people that were
using his services at least be put on blast. There's
mister Epstein, of course, seen in his mugshots smirking at
the camera. Then there's Sarah kell and Vickers, who allegedly
(08:17):
scheduled his massages. There's British socialite co conspirator general all
around scumbag Glenn Maxwell, who allegedly organized sex parties and
taught girls to perform to mister Epstein's satisfaction. Well, we
all know about the dance routines and the rest of it.
And remember this is an article from twenty nineteen, So
(08:37):
this is an old article, right, folks, an article before
we you know, knew what we know now. So when
we go back and we use hindsight to take a
look at this stuff, it's crazy to think how spot
on we have been. From Jump Street. There's a culture that,
when faced with acts of exploitation and rap against women
(09:00):
and girls, ponders how to make the problem go away
as to not inconvenience the men. Yeah. Look, it's the
Colhart truth of it, and our society has been like
that for a very long time as a man. It's
kind of embarrassing too. Dudes out here thinking they could
put their hands on people that don't want their hands
on them, think that a girl is there for you
(09:23):
to assault because she's wearing a short dress or whatever
it is. I just don't understand that mindset, that psyche.
But there's a lot of people out there who think
like that, and it's fucking gross, honestly. Then there's mister Acosta,
who work with mister Epstein's attorneys to shield this from
(09:43):
the press, who failed to notify survivors about the deal,
though federal law required him to, who called a fourteen
year old victim a child prostitute. Again, Alex Acosta is
such a gross bastard and old Trumpety Trump Trump Trumper.
He's embarrassing as well. How are you going to bring
this dude on board? You don't do your due diligence.
(10:05):
Oh that's right. Why do you care? Epstein was your
homie at one point too, So what's the big deal?
As human rights attorney Yasmin Vaffa told The Herald, there
is no such thing as a child prostitute under federal law.
It's called child sex trafficking. That's what it is. Can
we call it what it is? It's that too difficult?
(10:26):
Can we just apply the law as it stated? Please?
And that thirteen month sentence. Mister Epstein served it in
a private wing of the local jail. Those sex offenders
aren't allowed work release. He was permitted to spend twelve
hours a day, six days a week at his office
where we know now there's allegations that he was still
(10:47):
abusing people while a deputy was appointed to him. What
were those deputies up to? Finally saves some fury for
a system and society that obviously regards some of us
as throwaway people to be given throwaway justice, the eloquent
lies of the blindfolded lady with the scales notwithstanding, as
(11:09):
Courtney Wilde, who met mister Epstein when she was fourteen
and still wearing braces, told the Herald, he went after
girls who he thought no one would listen to. And
he was right. And another reason why I'm so pissed
off about all of this, going after poor people, vulnerable people.
Fuck my people, most of your people as well. I
know I grew up in the inner city. This could
(11:30):
have been countless numbers of my friends female friends growing up.
I cannot tell you the poverty and how broke people were.
Someone shows up offering two hundred three hundred dollars for
a massage. I can guarantee that a lot of the
girls that I grew up in with in my neighborhood
would have jumped at the opportunity for the record. Ms
(11:55):
Vickers went on to marry a NASCAR driver. Miss Maximell
runs an environmental nonprofit. Nah, she's in jail. Mister Acosta
is our secretary of labor. Not anymore. Mister Epstein, who
faces a civil suit on December fourth, lives on a
private island and travels by private jet. Not anymore, He's
dead meantime. Courtney Wilde grew up to work as a
(12:16):
stripper and became addicted to drugs. In twenty sixteen, she
was arrested for trafficking methanphetamine. Now you want to talk
about no justice in the world, imagine being arrested for
trafficking meth after your accuser, Epstein and Maxwell and the
rest of them get off scot free for so long.
I can't even imagine how Courtney feels. She was sentenced
(12:44):
to three years. So when I talk about how there
is no equity in the law, this is what I mean, folks,
poor people, people who are middle class, working, middle class.
No chance, man, we don't have a chance. We're throwaway.
We don't mean shit to society. And the real reality
of it is this, if you don't have economic power,
(13:05):
then you don't have power. And that's why they want
all of the wealth, all of the power, in the
hands of the very few, while the rest of us
struggle and battle for every single scrap we have on
our table. And frankly, folks, your boy is fucking sick
of it. And all of these people who were hanging
(13:28):
out with Epstein, enabling Epstein and helping all of this
stuff to happen, well, they're the first people on my list.
And then systematically we'll go from there. We'll dispose all
of these scumbags for their scumbaggery because enough is enough.
We're not disposable, we're not throwaway people. And guess what,
(13:49):
We're not going to be silenced any longer. If you'd
like to contact me, you can do that at Bobby
Kapuchi at Protonmeil dot com. That's bo bbu u y
c A p U c c I at ProtonMail dot com.
You can also find me on Twitter at b O
b b y underscore c A p U c c I.
(14:11):
The link that we discussed is in the description box.
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