The criminal career of Jeffrey Epstein

JE (New York, 20 January 1953 - 10 August 2019) worked as a teacher, in banking and finance, first as an employee then with his own company.

The first complaint. It all started in 1996. JE was 43 years old; the artist Maria Farmer (26) lodged an initial complaint against JE, accusing him of having sexually abused her in Ohio at the villa of a friend of JE's. The judicial authorities, however, decided not to prosecute.

The first conviction. In 2008 JE was sentenced for child prostitution to 13 months imprisonment. Conviction following plea bargains deemed by the press to be too lenient. The then prosecutor Alexander Acosta had been Trump's Minister of Labour.

Thirty-six minors were identified with whom he allegedly had sexual encounters, including 14-year-old girls. Between 2009 and 2017, a series of civil cases reconstructed the system of abuse, the pillars of which were the recruitment of minors, sexual exploitation and confidentiality agreements to keep everything quiet.

The second arrest and death. JE was arrested again on 6 July 2019, on charges of child sex trafficking again in Florida, this time also in New York. Searches at his residences turn up child pornography and massage tables. On 10 August he was found dead in his Epstein cell at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center (momentarily closed) at 6:30am Italian time on 10 August 2019. The coroner ruled that his death was suicide by hanging.