Apologies won\u2019t help the survivors still living with the echoes of abuse. But wealthy people have the resources to make a real impact<\/p>\n
Years before there was a call for transparency with the Epstein files, I spent months reading the documents. Not the headlines \u2013 the documents: the emails, the financial records, the human suffering, and the internal communications that mapped how one man\u2019s wealth and power built an ecosystem of exploitation that operated for decades. As a sex trafficking expert for more than 15 years, I\u2019ve witnessed many men who abused their power and the system, but rarely have I seen wealth weaponized so effectively and for so long.<\/p>\n
I read the files because I served as the expert witness for the US Virgin Islands in its litigation against JPMorgan Chase, which alleged that the bank maintained a financial relationship with Epstein despite evidence of his sex trafficking. The case ended in a 2023 settlement<\/a>; the bank did not admit wrongdoing. I reviewed the messages from men with power and wealth in Epstein\u2019s orbit. I saw what they said, what they didn\u2019t say, and what they saw and didn\u2019t see.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apologies won\u2019t help the survivors still living with the echoes of abuse. But wealthy people have the resources to make a real impact Years before there was a call for transparency with the Epstein files, I spent months reading the documents. Not the headlines \u2013 the documents: the emails, the financial records, the human suffering, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}