Contents Of 40+ Computers Seized On Epstein Island—This Is What Might Be On Them: True Crime Author

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On "Forbes True Crime," Barry Levine, author of "The Spider: Inside the Criminal Web of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell," discussed the outstanding questions surrounding Epstein, and pointed to the more than 40 computers evidence logs show were seized on his island.

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00:00Another question that people want to know is who was involved here because Jeffrey Epstein was

00:05arrested and was sitting in jail until he died over charges of sex trafficking. These crimes

00:10allegedly involved minors. Ghislaine Maxwell, his accomplice, is still sitting in jail right now for

00:17sex trafficking crimes, sex crimes related to minors. And so I think a big question that people

00:23have is if they were operating really this global sex trafficking ring, who else was involved

00:29aside from them? And where is the justice? Where are they going to get in trouble? I mean,

00:34the one question you had in The New York Times is who were the clients implicated in Mr. Epstein's

00:39sex trafficking operation? How are we going to get answers to that?

00:44Well, that is, of course, at the, you know, at the top of the list in terms of what the public

00:50really wants to know. And we know from the evidence logs that there was the contents of

00:56more than 40 computers that Jeffrey Epstein had across all of his homes and in his office in the

01:03Virgin Islands. And what's the content of those computers? Are there databases in terms of they

01:12may not necessarily be a client list with a list of names of men that Jeffrey Epstein put out some of

01:19his victims to, but I would think that we could generate a list of questionable individuals who not

01:30only Jeffrey Epstein associated with, but may have actually taken part in the sex trafficking. And I am

01:38interested in looking into the files of trying to understand what the FBI did in terms of trying to

01:47corroborate the accounts of several victims who referenced other men. This goes beyond his chief accuser,

01:57Virginia Giuffre, who said that she had been trafficked to Prince Andrew, one, you know, a member of the

02:05royal family. Andrew, of course, has denied any wrongdoing. He denied, he's denied even knowing or meeting

02:13Virginia Giuffre, even though there's a photo that shows them together. He was sued by her and he paid

02:21an out-of-court settlement to her of many millions of dollars. I want to know what the FBI did and is

02:31this included in the files that would show what actions they took to look into the allegations and

02:36claims made by the various victims? Did they put any of these men under surveillance? Did they attempt to

02:45contact them? Did they look into their phone records or emails? It's extremely important to understand

02:56that this case goes back to when the Palm Beach Police first alerted the FBI after their initial

03:05investigation in 2006. The FBI came in and did an initial investigation and were going to file 50

03:16counts of charges against Jeffrey Epstein. Now, of course, as the American public knows,

03:23Alexander Acosta, who was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District in Florida,

03:28hammered out a non-prosecution agreement with Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers. And so Jeffrey Epstein only had

03:38to plead guilty to two state charges of prostitution and prostitution of solicitation of a minor in which

03:48he received only a sentence of 18 months in jail. And in fact, he only served 13 months in the county

03:56lockup. And during a lot of that time, he was allowed out on work release. So it's been called

04:03a slap on the on the wrist sentence. And Jeffrey Epstein dismissed it afterwards and said,

04:11what I did is no worse than stealing a bagel. But the FBI continued their investigation,

04:19particularly after the Miami Herald published its perversion of justice series on him and and the

04:29details of that sweetheart deal that took place in 2008. And so they interviewed new victims or they

04:38interviewed victims for the first time that they had not spoken to before. We need to see those documents.

04:44We need to see. I'm completely fine with the redaction of the victims names. I'm even fine

04:51with the redaction of third party names. But I would like to see the specifics of the investigation that

04:58we could learn from the Epstein FBI files that could tell us the various moves that the FBI made

05:06or maybe didn't make. And if they didn't make those moves, there's some explaining to do. Did they receive

05:13additional pressure from high up not to investigate certain people? We know that victims have named

05:21politicians in the US. They've named individual politicians from other countries. They've named

05:33people in the science community in America. Very important people had been named by these victims in

05:42terms of taking part in this sex trafficking. And I want to know what the FBI did or didn't do to

05:50investigate these men.

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