Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker who took his own life in 2019, has been linked to some of the world's most powerful men. Names included in the court documents aren't evidence of wrongdoing.
The unsealed documents in the Epstein case have been released.
People in this list:
Victims
Case detectives
Doctors
Staff at assorted Epstein residences
Rich folk that knew Epstein enough to have been invited to the island.
Some may have been potential victims, involved in Hollywood nepotism or money fuckery. But they are tainted by association.
Remember Epstein didn't kill himself. Those that did it did it in broad daylight and didn't get caught (yet). So I'd be surprised if the worst offenders are even on the list at all.
Nothing "allegedly" about it, they ARE linked. Whether or not they did anything wrong (and they almost certainly did), being mentioned in those court documents is literally a link to Epstein.
You'd think that someone writing for NPR would at least be literate enough to understand what all the words they use mean..
Whether or not they fully "took the bait", powerful men who hung out with Epstein are all scumbags. The ones who did after his first conviction or otherwise finding out, at least.
And of course I don't consider people linked to him through victimhood the same as the powerful men I was talking about. No good faith reading of my comment could possibly suggest otherwise.
Keep that in mind before you set up the guillotine
Nah, fuck that. No man rich and influential enough to join the upper echelon of the New York and Florida socialite scene where Epstein found customers didn't either step on or at least ignore a lot of innocent struggling people to get there. I say they're all about a head too tall.
Allegedly is just a way to avoid getting sued. They know what they're doing. Sure, if they're on the list, that could be argued it's not alleged that they're tied together in some form, but at least this will keep anyone from attempted to sue them over it. And all they had to do was wiggle their fingers a few more times to add that extra word.
I know why media (say they) use "alleged" all the time, but this doesn't apply.
It's by definition a link. Whether it’s a significant link is another matter, but no court would be so ridiculous as to accept a lawsuit based on a misunderstanding of what the word "linked" means.
if they're on the list, that could be argued it's not alleged that they're tied together in some form
The list itself is a link. Whether it’s a link that means anything is yet to be revealed, but it's beyond a shadow of a doubt and in every legal sense a link.
this will keep anyone from attempted to sue them over it.
No it won't. There was already precisely zero risk of it.
The only thing they're achieving by adding "alleged" to this headline is to annoy people who know what words and concepts are and then spur a lot of people to tell those already annoyed people things the annoyed people already know and have been reminded of every time they've pointed out misuse of "alleged".