Before Arrest, Jeffrey Epstein Was Seen With Girls Exiting His Jet

Before Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest in July on sex-trafficking charges, federal authorities were looking into an allegation that he was seen as recently as November exiting his private jet in the United States Virgin Islands with girls who appeared to be underage, newly released documents show.

The documents also show that the United States Marshals Service was investigating whether Mr. Epstein had failed to report his international travel, as he was required to do as a registered sex offender.

The marshals service documents, which were obtained by the investigative website MuckRock, indicated that the federal investigation into Mr. Epstein was broader than previously understood at the time of his arrest on July 6 and his death a month later, when he hanged himself in a Manhattan jail cell.

A federal indictment unsealed against Mr. Epstein in July charged that he had engaged in sex-trafficking of underage victims in Florida and New York between at least 2002 and 2005. It said Mr. Epstein, 66, had recruited dozens of girls for sex, after which he paid them hundreds of dollars in cash.

Source: The New York Times

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