Financier Epstein pleads not guilty to U.S. charges of sex trafficking via ReutersTV
NEW YORK - American financier Jeffrey Epstein pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of sex trafficking as prosecutors accused him of luring dozens of girls as young as 14 to his luxury homes in New York and Florida and paying them for sex acts.
Wearing dark blue jail scrubs, Epstein entered his plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman to one count of sex trafficking and one count of sex trafficking conspiracy. He faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted. Epstein has said in earlier court filings that his encounters with alleged victims were consensual and that he believed they were 18 when they occurred.on Saturday night at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, where he had returned on his private plane from Paris.
By 2007, Epstein was facing a potential federal indictment for sexually abusing dozens of girls between 1999 and 2007, directing others to abuse them, and paying employees to bring victims to him, according to court filings. Prosecutors who helped craft the Florida agreement included Alex Acosta, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and now Trump’s Secretary of Labor. A spokeswoman for the Labor Department declined to comment on Sunday.Epstein would initially recruit victims to provide “massages,” which they would perform nude or partially nude, the indictment said.
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