@cstross Alex Acosta gave h a sweetheart deal and buried the extensive indictment that the FBI had queued up because he was allegedly told that Epstein was a very well-connected intelligence asset and shouldn't be touched.

Acosta was given a cabinet position in Trump's first admin.

Him having multiple horror galleries is not surprising. He was well connected to a class of people who are utterly devoid of what most of consider basic morality.

@cstross I think we're about one news cycle away from learning that the fucker had a volcano base with a shark pool.

@cstross for true horror, take a look at jmail.world (which took emails and formatted them as if the reader were Epstein.)

I think he outhorrors even your imagination.
(A search for "ranch" brings up more than 10K messages. I hope not all of them are *that* one.)

@cstross The guy had a bunch of properties where known victims have said his crimes occured. His ranch and two islands seem the best locations for keeping stuff out of the public eye and body disposal. I do think murders occurred in connection with his sex trafficking. Multiple victims have spoken of threats of violence which included talk of others being murdered. The victim statements we have are from people who survived Epstein. We don't have statements from those who didn't.

@cstross If you were rich and had one paedophile factory, why would you ONLY have one?

@cstross Yes.

The "Zorro" Ranch, he also had property in Manhattan and various other locations.

@cstross oh, yes, he had multiple locations for raping children. An apartment in Manhattan, an estate in Palm Beach, and a 7800 acre ranch in New Mexico.
All of which were known to federal AND local authorities with multiple reports of the activities going on at them.

@cstross Don't forget that Epstein had a house in New York City next door to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Lutnick said there was a "massage room" in there as well.

@cstross why do you think he had the plane, Charlie?

@cstross Some people are ocean pedophiles, some are desert pedophiles.

(ugh!)

@cstross I'm not sure. But it would surprise me that he limited his perfidy to only one location.