BREAKING: Billionaire convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein arrested for alleged sex trafficking, officials say.
Billionaire convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was arrested Saturday in connection with federal sex trafficking allegations, law enforcement officials said.Epstein, 66, of Palm Beach, Florida, had flown from Paris to New York whenin Teterboro, New Jersey, the officials said. The arrest was part of a joint NYPD and FBI investigation.
The Epstein case was led by SDNY’s Public Corruption Unit, working with the sex crimes division, according to a source familiar with the investigation. Separately, a senior law enforcement official briefed on the case says that Epstein is expected to face multiple federal charges for"dozens" of victims.
Multiple people briefed on the matter say that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York's public corruption unit is prosecuting the case.Epstein came under renewed scrutiny after his lawyer made a secret deal with prosecutors in 2008 that allowed him to plead guilty to lesser charges after federal authorities pursued him for allegedly having sex with multiple underage victims.
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